Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Search E-Commerce) - 2025 Start (PhD)

$137,750 - $237,500/Yr

Tiktok - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Entry Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Machine Learning Engineer Graduate position at TikTok focuses on enhancing the search capabilities of its e-commerce platform. This role is designed for PhD graduates starting in 2025, aiming to leverage advanced machine learning techniques to improve user experience and optimize product search functionalities. The position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing global e-commerce ecosystem, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Improve the basic search quality and user experience by optimizing query analysis and text relevance matching.
• Understand e-commerce video content and implement multi-modal matching to enhance product authority perception.
• Comprehensively improve the end-to-end shopping experience from browsing to after-sales.
• Design and implement the end-to-end ranking system to enhance personalized shopping interests.
• Improve shopping conversion efficiency for merchandise, video, and live streams to promote GMV growth.
• Address industry challenges such as supply and demand matching and sustainable business growth.
• Analyze and adjust system evolution for long-term GMV growth.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related field.
• Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Familiarity with recommendation systems, machine learning, deep learning, data mining, computer vision, NLP, or multimodal machine learning.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or C/C++, and familiarity with a machine learning framework.
• Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills.
• Publication records in top journals or conferences are a plus.
• Experience winning ACM-ICPC medals is a plus.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with large-scale machine learning applications.
• Familiarity with e-commerce platforms and user experience design.

Benefits

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