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Machine Learning Engineer - E-commerce Merchant and Creator Growth - San Jose

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Develop end-to-end algorithmic capabilities using machine learning, data mining, and causal inference to expand merchants and creators on TikTok Shop.

Role type

Machine Learning Engineer (Marketplace Growth)

Builds

TikTok Shop ecosystem growth solutions for merchants and creators

Domain

E-commerce / Marketplace / Social Commerce

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SQL, Python, big data processing (Hadoop, Spark), feature engineering, machine learning, deep learning, causal inference, data mining

Preferred skills

Causal machine learning, user growth algorithms, marketing algorithms, recommendation algorithms

Technologies

Hadoop, Spark, SQL, Python

Responsibilities

Analyze large-scale datasets to identify correlations and causal relations for merchant/creator growth; Develop scalable data pipelines for ML tasks; Evaluate and benchmark ML approaches; Collaborate with stakeholders to define data mining objectives.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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