Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Search E-Commerce - San Jose) - 2025 Start (BS/MS)

$112,000 - $177,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

San Jose, CA

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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. The role involves utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, including NLP and computer vision, to improve user experience and optimize product search functionalities. Graduates will have the opportunity to contribute to a team dedicated to creating a top-tier search engine that serves over a billion users globally, while also fostering personal and professional growth within 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 stream to promote GMV growth.
• Promote the robust development of the ecosystem by solving supply and demand matching and sustainable business growth challenges.
• Analyze and adjust the evolution of the system for long-term GMV growth.

Requirements

• Current 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Publication records in top journals or conferences.
• Experience winning ACM-ICPC medals.

Benefits

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