Tech Lead - TikTok Ecommerce Recommendation Algo
Core
Lead the design, build, and optimization of large-scale e-commerce recommendation algorithms for TikTok Shop, focusing on user engagement and conversion via live-streaming and short videos.
Role type
Senior IC machine-learning engineer (recommendation systems) with team leadership
Builds
Large-scale recommendation algorithm pipelines, user interest models, and predictive models for candidate generation and ranking
Domain
E-commerce, machine learning, large-scale data mining
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Recommendation systems, user interest modeling, predictive modeling, real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization, team leadership
Preferred skills
Online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing
Technologies
Large-scale machine learning frameworks
Responsibilities
Design and optimize large-scale recommendation pipelines; build user interest models; develop predictive models for CTR and conversion; manage the global e-commerce recommendation team; collaborate with product and strategy teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership