Machine Learning Engineer, E-Commerce Alliance - USDS

$119,000 - $168,500/Yr

Tiktok - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Entry Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security (USDS) is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S., created to enhance focus and governance on our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. Our commitment is to provide oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and U.S. user data, allowing millions of Americans to learn, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment span across Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions, and more. The e-commerce alliance team is dedicated to serving merchants and creators within the e-commerce platform, aiming to meet merchants' business indicators and improve creators' creative efficiency. By collaborating with merchants and creators, we strive to provide high-quality content and a personalized shopping experience for TikTok users, create efficient shopping tools at seller centers, and promote cooperation between merchants and creators. We are actively seeking an Applied Scientist to join our Global E-Commerce Alliance Team. This role focuses on developing and implementing innovative machine learning solutions for our recommendation systems in the E-Commerce business. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams, providing expert insight and influencing critical decision-making across multiple areas of our business. The e-commerce alliance team aims to serve merchants and creators in the e-commerce platform to meet merchants' business indicators and improve creators' creative efficiency. By cooperating with merchants and creators, we aim to provide high-quality content and a personalized shopping experience for TikTok users, create efficient shopping tools at seller centers, and promote cooperation between merchants and creators.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy sophisticated machine learning algorithms to enhance the performance of our recommendation systems.
• Utilize ML, NLP, and CV techniques to deal with real-world signals generated from products, creators, merchants, e-commerce transactions, and more.
• Design and deploy large recommendation models in an online learning manner to serve billions of queries and products.
• Formulate end-to-end machine learning models for recommendation systems, ensuring their efficient and effective operation.
• Analyze extensive, complex datasets to extract meaningful insights, identify opportunities for improvement, and facilitate data-driven decision-making.
• Design and execute experiments, testing and iterating on machine learning models to optimize recommendation functions and boost user satisfaction.
• Stay abreast of the latest advances in machine learning and recommendation systems, integrating this knowledge into your work.
• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts, methodologies, and results to a diverse audience, influencing decisions based on your findings.
• Adhere to stringent data governance and privacy protocols, ensuring all user data is handled responsibly and ethically.

Requirements

• PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Experience in machine learning, deep learning, data mining, or artificial intelligence.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, C++, Java, or similar.

Nice-to-haves

• Deep understanding of recommendation algorithms and personalization systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with reinforcement learning techniques.
• Proven modeling/algorithms competition records on Kaggle or top conferences' challenges.
• Proven programming competition records on ICPC, IOI or USACO.
• Experience working with recommendation systems, computational advertising, search engine, E-commerce recommendation systems.
• Publications in machine learning or related conferences or journals are highly desirable.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.