Algorithm Engineer, TikTok E-commerce (Knowledge Graph)

Responsibilities

TikTok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require TikTok's sponsorship of a visa.

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.

About the team
Our team enhances the recognition capabilities for users, products, short videos, and more, in order to recommend more suitable products to users and provide them with an excellent shopping experience.

Responsibilities:
- Construct user profiling system to accurately depict each user's shopping interests by analyzing their behavioral patterns, preferences, and consumption habits during the shopping process.
- Utilise NLP, CV, and multimodal technologies to enhance understanding of short video content and products, supporting search, recommendation, and end-to-end shopping experiences in the marketplace.
- Explore large-scale and high-quality pretraining datasets in specific verticals of e-commerce, leveraging the power of the Byte Universal Model to develop industry-specific models for e-commerce.
- Discover new scenarios for interactive shopping experiences in e-commerce through these innovations.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
1. Deep research expertise in NLP, CV, and multimodal fields, including but not limited to machine translation, multilingual NLP, few-shot learning, reinforcement learning, image and video understanding, and multimodal analysis.
2. Proficient in training and deploying models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other frameworks.
3. Strong practical skills, with a preference for those who have project experience in video content understanding or multimodal retrieval. Priority will be given to individuals with awards from competitions such as Kaggle, COCO, ActivityNet, ICPC, NOI/IOI.

Preferred Qualifications:
1. Individuals who have published papers in top-tier academic conferences/journals
2. Minimum 1 year relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business.

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.