
Leading short-form video platform
Machine Learning Engineer (Platform Governance), TikTok Global E-Commerce - 2025 Start (PhD)
Benefits and perks
•Unlimited PTO
•Equity
•Healthcare
•Learning Budget
Required skills
Airflow
SQL
Apache Spark
About the Role
Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At Tik Tok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Tik Tok'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 Tik Tok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make Tik Tok 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 Tik Tok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
About the Team
The team use the most advanced AI technology to combat various risks/violations in Tik Tok's e-commerce platform, maintain platform security, build a good e-commerce ecosystem, and empower business teams to improve work efficiency. We pursue the ultimate risk detection capability. The fairness and sustainability of the e-commerce ecosystem, high-quality content and merchandise are areas where we are constantly striving for improvement.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us 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 Tik Tok.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to Tik Tok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for using algorithms to mine, identify, and predict risks and low-quality merchants, products, and creators in e-commerce scenarios, and assist businesses in managing and controlling them.
- Responsible for using algorithms to identify events and behaviors that affect product experience and efficiency, and building data models to help create a favorable ecosystem and support business operations.
- Participate in building data for various entities such as e-commerce live streaming/video, products, merchants, and creators, building large-scale network/feature sequence models to support business scenarios such as content understanding, multimodal representation, community mining, and solve problems related to products, live streaming, and video management, and provide support for them.
- Participate in building a large-scale graph storage and graph learning platform to improve relationship building and governance within the Tik Tok e-commerce community.
- Explore and research cutting-edge technologies in machine learning/graph learning/sequence learning and related fields, implement these technologies in practical business scenarios, and support the production of scalable and optimised machine learning models.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Final year Ph.D or recent Ph.D graduates in Computer Science, engineering or quantitative field.
- Solid coding skills, familiar with deep learning/graph neural network/machine learning frameworks such as Py Torch, Tensor Flow, DGL, pyg, sklearn, etc.
- Familiar with one or more algorithms in machine learning/graph learning/sequence learning, such as graph modeling, timing signal modeling, node/subgraph classification, community mining, representation learning, self-supervised/semi-supervised learning, with a certain depth and breadth.
- Relevant industry experience with solid theoretical foundation of machine learning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Good sense of teamwork and communication skills, practical experience in relevant business scenarios is preferred.
- Published papers in high-level computer science conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NIPS, AAAI, etc.) or have competition experience are preferred.
- Familiar with the application of related algorithms in data mining, search recommendation, content understanding, and governance risk control preferred.
- Skilled in numpy and pandas for modeling experiments, familiar with big data tools such as Hive, Spark, Hadoop preferred.
Additional Information
Tik Tok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Tik Tok's sponsorship of a visa.
Tik Tok 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 Tik Tok, 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.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com.
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