Algorithm Engineer, E-commerce Knowledge Graph - USDS

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking an Algorithm Engineer to enhance the recognition capabilities for users and products in e-commerce. The role involves constructing user profiling systems and utilizing NLP and CV technologies to improve shopping experiences.

Responsibilities

• Construct user profiling system to accurately depict each user's shopping interests by analyzing their behavioral patterns, preferences, and consumption habits during the shopping process
• Utilise NLP, CV, and multimodal technologies to enhance understanding of short video content and products, supporting search, recommendation, and end-to-end shopping experiences in the marketplace
• Explore large-scale and high-quality pretraining datasets in specific verticals of e-commerce, leveraging the power of the Byte Universal Model to develop industry-specific models for e-commerce
• Discover new scenarios for interactive shopping experiences in e-commerce through these innovations

Skills

• Deep research expertise in NLP, CV, and multimodal fields, including but not limited to machine translation, NLP, few-shot learning, reinforcement learning, image and video understanding, and multimodal analysis
• Proficient in training and deploying models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other frameworks
• Strong practical skills, with a preference for those who have project experience in video content understanding or multimodal retrieval
• Priority will be given to individuals with awards from competitions such as Kaggle, COCO, ActivityNet, ICPC, NOI/IOI
• Individuals who have published papers in top-tier academic conferences/journals
• Minimum 1 year relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business

Benefits

• 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
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

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