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.

Our team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art NLP/CV/ML algorithms and strategies to improve user consumption experience, inspire merchants' service quality and revenue, and build a fair and flourishing ecosystem on our E-commerce Platform. More specifically, our team is responsible for the algorithms of Product Knowledge Graphs under TikTok's global e-commerce business.

What you will do:
• Participate in the development of massive knowledge graphs of real-world products to support feed ranking, recommendations, and ads.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and the product strategy & operation team to define product strategies and features.

Responsibilities:
• Lead the team to construct the Knowledge graph, including product/content/feedback understanding and category/brand/SPU construction.
• Build, expand and manage buyers' and products' global e-commerce knowledge graphs.
• Collaborate with strategy team, product managers, policy team and ops team to define products and drive initiatives from engineering viewpoints.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 5+ working experience in one of the following fields: machine learning, NLP(Natural Language Processing), multimodal, and computer vision
• Experience with software development in at least one of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Go, Java
• Good sense of teamwork and communication skills, practical experience in relevant business scenarios is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Proficient in using at least one mainstream deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow/PyTorch, understanding distributed training, distillation acceleration, and other implementation methods.
• Experience in text classification, text matching, sequence labeling, and knowledge graph.
• Strong sense of responsibility and good at communication and teamwork
• Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems

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 $224000 - $410000 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:

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.