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Senior Machine Learning E-commerce Feed Recommendation

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TikTok logoTiktok · Seattle, WA
Full-timeOn-site2mo ago30+ days old, may be filled
Deep LearningFeature EngineeringMachine LearningPythonPyTorchTensorFlow
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Responsibilities

  • Participate in building large-scale (10 million to 100 million) live-streaming and short video e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems on TikTok.
  • Design, develop, evaluate and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation and ranking(eg. Click Through Rate and Conversion Rate prediction) , including, but not limited to building real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization and innovation.
  • Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently.
  • Design and develop various strategies using ML technology to improve user shopping experience, and resolve e-commerce business challenges, such as the cold start problem and traffic allocation.
  • 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.
  • 3 years of 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.
  • 3 years of experience in recommendation system, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields.
  • Publications at KDD, NeurlPS, 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.
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  • [For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
  • The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $202160 - $368220 annually.
  • 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:
  • 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.

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