Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Business Growth) - 2025 Start (MS/PhD)

Responsibilities

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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us

The E-Commerce Business Growth- Data Compass team aims to cater to merchants and creators on the e-commerce platform and improve their operational efficiency. Our focus is to optimize various aspects such as merchandise strategy, user operation, and marketing, leveraging algorithm-driven solutions.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 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

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2025.

We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit to these start dates. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

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' jobs globally.

Responsibilities
1. Improve the working efficiency of e-commerce merchants, influencers, and account managers to boost the growth of sellers' products, customers, and revenue.
2. Participate in the optimization of sellers' operations, such as marketing insights, assortment planning, customer relationship management (CRM), anomaly detection, and diagnostic attribution.
3. Participate in the optimization of merchandise operations, such as seasonal and trend analysis, supply and demand analysis, new product and product growth analysis, and improving the alignment of products and associated traffic.
4. Participate in the optimization of the marketing strategies and Return on Investment (ROI) of sellers and influencers in TikTok e-commerce live streaming, short video, and ShopTab.
5. Analyze and conduct feature engineering for massive data such as customer profiling, e-commerce transactions, relationships between products, business opportunities, and deploy the model pipeline.
6. Use techniques such as representation learning, graph modeling, causal inference, and time series forecasting to assist merchants and influencers in problem-solving and discovering growth opportunities.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
1. A bachelor's degree is required, with a strong preference for fields of study in computer science, statistics, and data mining.
2. Experienced with feature engineering from massive raw data, such as customer/shop/influencer profiling and e-commerce transactions.
3. Solid understanding and hands-on experience with data structures algorithms, machine learning models such as boosting trees, logistic regression, and clustering.
4. Proficient coding skills using Python, Spark, Tensorflow/PyTorch, and other deep learning tools.
5. Experience in search and recommendation systems, with an emphasis on AIGC field is a plus.
6. A strong desire to learn and discover new things, result-oriented, customer-oriented, team player, and self-driven.

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 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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2.