Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Music Full-time

Responsibilities

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 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.

About the Team
The TikTok Music Recommendation Team is dedicated to leveraging recommendation-related technologies to continually enhance the music ecosystem of the TikTok and TikTok Music. At the user level, we assist listeners in discovering, enjoying, and utilizing music for video creation through personalized recommendation algorithms. At the musical level, we influence and guide music trends by developing promotional tools and refining promotional strategies, thereby amplifying TikTok and TikTok Music’s influence within the music industry.

Responsibilities
– Understand machine learning techniques and business objectives, end-to-end own recommendation system and responsible for user can better discover and consume music in TikTok.
– Build industry leading recommendation systems for providing accurate music recommendations and high-quality music experience during the user’s creation process, improving user’s creative experience.
– Focus on building algorithms for music promotion, guiding music trends and amplifying TikTok Music’s influence within the music industry.
– Run experiments to test the performance of deployed models, and identifies and resolves bugs that arise in the process.
– Work together with cross functional teams, such as product managers and data analysts, to grow TikTok Muisc business.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
– Bachelor’s degree or above majoring in Computer Science, or related fields.
– Strong coding skills in at least one of the following programming languages, e.g. Python, Java, C/C++, etc.
– Able to break down and solve problems independently with good teamwork and a passion for tackling challenging problems
– Excellent business sense and communication skills, able to work with PM to promote business development

Preferred Qualifications
-3 years relevant experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems or other related areas, with solid experience with data structures and algorithms.
-Familiar with the training and deployment of one or more framework models of TensorFlow/PyTorch/MXNet.

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