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TikTok · 3 weeks ago

Machine Learning Engineer/ Applied Data Scientist, E-Commerce Risk Control - USDS

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$137K/yr - $360K/yr

2+ years exp

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer/Applied Data Scientist to join their E-Commerce Risk Control team. The role involves developing machine learning algorithms to mitigate business risks in TikTok's e-commerce platforms, utilizing advanced techniques to enhance risk detection and model performance.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Invent, implement, and deploy cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, build prototypes, and explore entirely new conceptual solutions to respond to and mitigate business risks in TikTok e-commerce/platforms, including but not limited to fraudulent merchants, cheating influencers, malicious users, information security issues, and cross-domain risk challenges

Leverage techniques such as representation learning, graph models, deep learning, transfer learning, and multi-task learning to improve the efficiency of problem detection, thereby rapidly blocking risks and optimizing various metrics in the e-commerce community ecosystem

Monitor and attribute key metrics to quickly detect changes in risk and business trends, proactively identify potential attacks, continuously refine and adjust risk control strategies, and drive risk governance development and business model improvements

Mine and analyze massive e-commerce content and user behavior data to build both short-term and long-term user profiles, improve model precision and recall, and enhance robustness, automation, and generalization capabilities

Advance risk ML capabilities in privacy/compliance, interpretability, risk perception, and analysis; innovate models and algorithms tailored to the characteristics of content e-commerce, and build an industry-leading content e-commerce risk control algorithm system

Qualification

Machine LearningDeep LearningPythonC++/JavaData AnalysisRisk ControlAutonomyCritical ThinkingCommunication

Required

Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning, or other relevant STEM disciplines

2+ years of hands-on experience in building and delivering machine learning models for large-scale projects in internet companies

Proficiency in C++/Java/Python with strong coding skills, and familiarity with at least one common machine learning/deep learning platform

Deep understanding of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and deep learning techniques, and the ability to build business algorithm models using relevant algorithms

Ability to think critically, objectively; reason and communicate in a results-oriented, data-driven manner; and work with high autonomy

Preferred

PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Operations Research, or related field

4+ years of hands-on experience in building and delivering machine learning models for large-scale projects in internet companies

Experience in e-commerce/internet companies in fraud or risk control roles, with a track record of building fraud detection, anomaly detection, or similar risk control models using relevant algorithms

Ability to keep up with and proactively apply relevant technological advancements, incorporating the latest technologies (e.g., LLM, Multi-agent systems) into daily work

Benefits

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

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)

Company

TikTok

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TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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