Machine Learning Engineer (Search), TikTok e-Commerce

TikTok

Singapore

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.

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Position summary

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo. About the team We are the Alliance Algorithm team in the e-Commerce department. We are a group of applied machine learning engineers and data scientists that focus on e-Commerce recommendations. We are developing innovative algorithms and techniques to improve e-com creator experience. We are interested and excited in applying large scale machine learning to solve search for commodity selection and merchant cooperation in e-Commerce. Job Description - Participate in building e-Commerce recommendation algorithms and systems, including commodity search algorithm in TikTok shop. - Design & build query understanding models, analyze and extract relevant information from query of TikTok creators. - Design, develop, evaluate and iterate on predictive models for ranking (e.g. Click Through Rate), including but not limited to building real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization and innovation. - Design and build supporting/debugging tools as needed. Requirements - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields. - Strong programming and problem-solving ability. - Experience in applied machine learning, familiar with one or more of the algorithms such as Collaborative Filtering, Matrix Factorization, Factorization Machines, Word2vec, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting Trees, Deep Neural Networks, Wide and Deep etc. - Experience in Deep Learning Tools such as Tensorflow/Pytorch. - Experience with at least one programming language like C++/Python or equivalent. Preferred Qualifications - Experience in recommendation system, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields. - Publications at KDD, NEURIPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, RECSYS and related conferences/journals, or experience in data mining/machine learning competitions such as Kaggle/KDD-cup etc.

What are TikTok perks and benefits

Lactation facilities

Fertility

Unconscious bias training

Networking

Succession planning

Diversity recruiting

Diversity performance

Short term disability

Paid paternity

Paid maternity

Paid adoptive

About the company

TikTok

Industry: Technology: Consumer Internet

As the leading destination for short-form mobile video, our platform helps people around the world become a part of a global community. In a world that feels more divided than ever, we are here to inspire creativity and bring joy. We do this by embracing change, thriving in ambiguity, and always looking for solutions.

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.