Machine Learning Engineer (Recommendation), Global E-Commerce Alliance

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.

About the team

The e-commerce alliance team aims to serve merchants and creators on 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 our users, create efficient shopping tools at seller centers, and promote cooperation between merchants and creators.

Responsibilities

- Build and design large-scale machine learning algorithms to model the real-time interests of creators to improve conversion efficiency

- Optimize our massive commodity relationship mining and ranking and recall of creators' product recommendations, and improve the overall GMV of the platform

- Use the large scale of data to deeply analyze the behavior of creators and merchants and build targeted algorithm strategies to empower creators and merchants, improve merchants' monetization efficiency, and boost industrial upgrading

- Support the rapid development of our e-commerce business, serve millions of merchants, explore more efficient business models, satisfy users with the best shopping experience, and promote ecological development

- Support the production of scalable and optimised AI/machine learning (ML) models

- Focus on building algorithms for the extraction, transformation and loading of large volumes of realtime, unstructured data to deploy AI/ML solutions from theoretical data science models

- Run experiments to test the performance of deployed models, and identifies and resolves bugs that arise in the process

- Work in a team setting and apply knowledge in statistics, scripting and programming languages required by the firm

- Work with the relevant software platforms in which the models are deployed

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science or related fields.

- Experience in C++ and Python. Proficiency in at least one Big Data tool (e.g., Hive SQL, Spark, MapReduce) and at least one Deep Learning tool (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).

- Applied machine learning experience, familiarity with algorithms such as Collaborative Filtering, Matrix Factorization, Factorization Machines, Word2vec, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting Trees, Deep Neural Networks, etc.

- Industry experience in personalized recommendation, online advertising, information retrieval, or related fields.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Excellent learning ability and good communication and cooperative spirit.

- Passionate about techniques and solving challenging problems.

- Publications at KDD, NeurIPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, RecSys, and related conferences.