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Benefits & Perks
•Flexible PTO policy
•Annual team offsites
•Health, dental, and vision coverage
•Wellness benefits
Required Skills
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
About Us
Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
Size: 5001-10000 employees
Industry: Entertainment & Gaming, Social Media, Technology
Responsibilities
About the Teams:
E-commerce
- Recommendation and Marketing
E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on Tik Tok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. We are a group of applied machine learning engineers and research scientists that focus on E-commerce recommendations. We are responsible for building up and scaling our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best shopping experience for our Tik Tok users.
E-commerce
- Alliance
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 Tik Tok users, create efficient shopping tools at seller centers, and promote cooperation between merchants and creators.
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E-commerce
- Search The Search E-Commerce team is responsible for the search algorithm for Tik Tok's rapidly growing global e-commerce business. We use state-of-the-art large-scale machine learning technology, the cutting-edge NLP, CV and multi-modal technology to build the industry's top-class search engine to provide the best e-commerce search experience, for more than 1 billion monthly active Tik Tok users around the world. Our mission is to build a world where "there is no hard-to-sell good-priced product in the world".E-commerce
- Search Growth The Search Growth E-commerce team is at the forefront of developing the search recommendation algorithm for Tik Tok's rapidly expanding global e-commerce enterprise. Utilizing cutting-edge machine learning technology, advanced NLP, CV, recommendation, and multi-modal technology, we're shaping a pioneering engine within the industry. Our objective is to deliver the ultimate e-commerce search experience to over 1 billion active Tik Tok users worldwide. Our mission: to create a world where "there are no hard-to-sell, overpriced products."What You Will Do- Responsible for the build and design of optimization algorithm strategies for large-scale (10 million to 100 million products or creators' contents) e-commerce recommendation algorithm pipeline- 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, 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.
- Design and build supporting/debugging tools as needed.
Qualifications:
- Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor above degree in computer science or relevant areas.
- 3+ years of experience with a solid foundation in data structure and algorithm design, and be proficient in using one of the programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, R, etc.;
- Familiar with common machine/deep learning, causal inference, and operational optimization algorithms, including classification, regression, clustering methods, as well as mathematical programming and heuristic algorithms;
- Familiar with at least one framework of Tensor Flow / Py Torch / MXNet and its training and deployment details,as well as the training acceleration methods such as mixed precision training and distributed training;
- Familiar with big data related frameworks and application, those who are familiar with MR or Spark are preferred
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in recommendation systems, online advertising, ranking, search, 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.
Job InformationFor Pay Transparency Compensation 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 candidate's 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:
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Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
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Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
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Exercising sound judgment.
Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA
Job ID: Tik Tok-7356029573374757146
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2024-12-06T13:21:04
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA
- Life Insurance
- Fitness Subsidies
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
Parental Benefits
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Snacks
- Pet-friendly Office
- Happy Hours
- Some Meals Provided
- Company Outings
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Company Equity
Professional Development
- Promote From Within
- Access to Online Courses
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
- Mentor Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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About TikTok

TikTok
Late StageA short-form video entertainment app and social network platform
10,001+
Employees
Los Angeles
Headquarters
$220B
Valuation
Reviews
3.1
3 reviews
Work Life Balance
1.5
Compensation
2.0
Culture
1.2
Career
1.8
Management
1.0
5%
Recommend to a Friend
Pros
Limited positive feedback available
Company size allows for potential opportunities
Technology platform experience
Cons
Mass layoffs and poor handling of terminations
Unprofessional management and HR behavior
Exposure to traumatic content without adequate support
Salary Ranges
52 data points
Mid/L4
Senior/L5
Mid/L4 · Applied AI Product Data Scientist
1 reports
$273,000
total / year
Base
$210,000
Stock
-
Bonus
-
$273,000
$273,000
Interview Experience
4 interviews
Difficulty
3.5
/ 5
Duration
21-35 weeks
Experience
Positive 0%
Neutral 25%
Negative 75%
Interview Process
1
Application Review
2
Recruiter Screen
3
Online Assessment
4
Technical Phone Screen
5
Onsite/Virtual Interviews
6
Team Matching
7
Offer
Common Questions
Coding/Algorithm
System Design
Behavioral/STAR
Technical Knowledge
Data Structures
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TikTok users say they're being censored after new owners were announced. The company says it's a tech issue. - Reason Magazine
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TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
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TikTok is investigating why some users can't write 'Epstein' in messages - NPR
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