Algorithm Engineer (Computer Vision), TikTok e-Commerce

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The team use the most advanced AI technology to combat various risks/violations in Bytedance's e-commerce platform, maintain platform security, build a good e-commerce ecosystem, and empower business teams to improve work efficiency. We pursue the ultimate risk detection capability. The fairness and sustainability of the e-commerce ecosystem, high-quality content and merchandise are areas where we are constantly striving for improvement.

• Responsible for the optimization and iteration of computer vision related models in the e-commerce scene, including fine grain classification, Product object recognition, Product subject recognition, feature extraction, logo detection, brand recognition, etc., to optimize the merchant's product loading and unloading process.
• Responsible for e-commerce short video and livestream classification, multi-modal content mining, multi-modal content understanding, optimize e-commerce short video and livestream shopping experience.
• Responsible for e-commerce image search, photo search goods, goods duplication algorithm.
• Explore the cutting-edge technology of computer vision, responsible for the iteration and evolution of the overall algorithm and system.
• Support the production of scalable and optimised AI/machine learning (ML) models
• Focus on building algorithms for the extraction, transformation and loading of large volumes of realtime, unstructured data to deploy AI/ML solutions from theoretical data science models.
• Run experiments to test the performance of deployed models, and identifies and resolves bugs that arise in the process.
• Work in a team setting and apply knowledge in statistics, scripting and programming languages required by the firm.
• Work with the relevant software platforms in which the models are deployed.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in related fields
• In-depth research in a certain field of multimedia and computer vision, including but not limited to: image search, image/video classification and recognition, image segmentation, object detection, OCR, graph neural networks, multimodal, unsupervised and self-supervised learning, etc.;
• Familiar with the training and deployment of one or more framework models of TensorFlow/PyTorch/MXNet, and understand training acceleration methods such as hybrid precision training and distributed training;
• Familiar with the latest research and technical progress of model compression acceleration, including but not limited to model quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, etc., and inference frameworks such as TensorRT;
• Strong practical ability, winners in Kaggle, COCO, ImageNet, ActivityNet, ICPC, NOI/IOI and other competitions are preferred;
• Understand AutoML related algorithms, network structure or super parameter automatic search experience is preferred;
• Familiar with big data related frameworks and application of MR/Spark is preferred;
• Strong practical ability, papers published in relevant competitions and top academic conferences (such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, etc.) are preferred.

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