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About the team
TikTok's Data Cycling Center Team focuses on building content, understanding, and providing data-driven solutions for both internal stakeholders and tools for external users. We focus on both delivering human understanding and direct content understanding helping solve large impact problems from that understanding.

About the role
The Applied Scientist will assume a hands-on and multi-faceted role within our international organization, navigating through complex data labeling processes and extensive stakeholder management to comprehend and address diverse needs. The Applied Scientist will be pivotal in amplifying the efficacy of our data labeling processes, driving both strategic and operational advancements within the team.

Responsabilities
- Advanced Project Management: Direct and coordinate projects, orchestrating efforts across a large, interdisciplinary team of researchers, product managers, and data labelers, ensuring timely and efficient execution of tasks.
- Clarification and Simplification of Product Requirements: Diligently comprehend product needs, drive clear communication, and decompose technical tasks into more manageable units, ensuring a smooth execution path.
- Machine Learning Model Development: Conceptualize and develop advanced machine learning models aimed at optimizing the output of labelers, focusing on enhancing both the speed and quality of the labeling process.
- Collaborative Experimentation and Documentation: Work in tandem with various teams to formulate meticulous experiment plans, documenting results with utmost precision, and patiently addressing inquiries from both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
-Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors.
-Five years of experience building complex, large-scale NLP (Natural Language Processing) systems
- Communication Mastery: Demonstrates exceptional written and spoken communication prowess, with a proven ability to effectively interface with business stakeholders and international teams, conveying complex, data-driven narratives clearly and compellingly.
- Strategic Interpersonal Skills: Displays formidable interpersonal skills, embodying an ability to seize new opportunities, be able to set product directions strategically, ignite innovative ideas, and marshal support to bring products from conceptualization to realization.
- Practical ML Solutions Development: Boasts significant, hands-on experience in crafting Machine Learning solutions that address real-world business challenges, paired with proficiency in ML fundamentals such as diverse algorithm paradigms (including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning), evaluation methodologies, optimization techniques, and sampling strategies.
- Python Proficiency: Possesses intermediate-to-advanced skills in Python programming, showcasing the ability to develop and implement robust data science solutions.
- SQL and Data Modeling Expertise: Demonstrates intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in SQL, databases, and general data modeling, ensuring structured, efficient, and scalable data management, and leveraging data to inform strategic decision-making.

Preferred qualifications:
-PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors
-4 years of experience working cross-functionally to successfully deliver complex projects

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

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $114000 - $240000 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. 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:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.