Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Large Language Model&Generative AI – Full-time

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, 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 industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated.

With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. Our product engineering team is responsible for building an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join us as we drive the future of e-commerce here at TikTok.

Responsibilities:
– Responsible for development of data-empowered capabilities for e-commerce platform, enable different e-commerce verticals to extract and apply key insights from oceans of data to meet their business needs
– Data mining for e-commerce, building tagging system based on massive data, analysing user, traffic, e-commerce and other data, combining with business to improve GMV
– Data analysis, mining, model specific productization; understanding of e-commerce business, able to work with PM to continuously optimize data products based on data-driven
– Develop data mining pipelines to extract data assets (eg. entity labels) from aggregated data and enable the extraction of actionable insights from large volumes of domain data
– Design and development of various strategies, algorithms and machine learning techniques to improve the accuracy and coverage of extracted data assets
– Analyze e-commerce data-related business problems and abstract them into data-related requirements that are then implemented to help resolve key business problems

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
– BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related major
– 5+ years experience in data structures and algorithms, familiar with one or more: machine learning, natural language processing, data mining
– Familiar with one of the Python/Java/Go/C++ programming languages
– Familiar with common data processing technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Storm, Flink), with demonstrable coding skills
– Familiar with common data mining techniques and machine learning algorithms (GBDT, Xgboost, FM, DFM, etc.), and familiar with their principles and scope of application
– Proficiency in data mining, machine learning tools and common frameworks (TensorFlow, Pytorch)
– Familiar with LLM-related algorithms, tried fine-tuning open source models.
– Continuous learning, keeping up with the latest research directions and results in the field of machine learning, for the exploration of big data applications in various vertical areas

Preferred Qualifications:
– Established projects related to text rewriting, text-to-image generation, and text-to-video generation
– Development and optimization of advertising and recommendation algorithms

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