Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance)- 2025 Start (phd) (San Jose)

Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance)- 2025 Start (phd)

Join to apply for the Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance)- 2025 Start (phd) role at TikTok

Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance)- 2025 Start (phd)

Join to apply for the Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance)- 2025 Start (phd) role at TikTok

Responsibilities

Team Introduction:

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.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2024-2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.

Candidates can apply for a maximum of TWO positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you applied for. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates globally.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to enhance our recommendation systems.
• Apply machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision techniques to analyze e-commerce data and interactions.
• Deploy and maintain scalable recommendation models for real-time query handling and product suggestions.
• Analyze complex datasets to derive insights that guide strategic decisions.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest machine learning developments, incorporating them into your work.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or related fields.
• Graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Thorough understanding understanding of data structures and algorithms, with excellent problem-solving ability.
• Deep Understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications
• Internship experience or research experience, especially in e-commerce, recommendation, search engine
• Publications at conferences such as KDD, NeurIPS, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI.
• Curiosity toward new technologies and entrepreneurship
• High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities

Job Information

For Pay TransparencyCompensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $259200 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidates qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an Always Day 1 mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at

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