Machine Learning Engineer, NLP - TikTok E-commerce Knowledge Graph

Seattle, Washington, US Until 8/21/2026 3+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted March 29, 2026
Job description

Description

Our team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art NLP/ML algorithms and strategies to improve user consumption experience, inspire merchants' service quality and revenue, and build a fair and flourishing ecosystem on our E-commerce Platform. More specifically, our team is responsible for the algorithms of Product Knowledge Graphs under TikTok's global e-commerce business.

What you will do:
• Participate in the development of massive knowledge graphs of real-world products to support feed ranking, recommendations, and ads.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and the product strategy & operation team to define product strategies and features.

Responsibilities:
• Knowledge graph construction, including product/content/feedback understanding and category/brand/SPU construction.
• Construct knowledge graphs of buyers and products.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 3+ working experience in one of the following fields: machine learning, NLP, and computer vision
• Experience with software development in at least one of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Go, Java
• Good sense of teamwork and communication skills, practical experience in relevant business scenarios is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Proficient in using at least one mainstream deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow/PyTorch, understanding distributed training, distillation acceleration, and other implementation methods.
• Experience in text classification, text matching, sequence labeling, knowledge graph.
• Aware of certain processing methods and optimization experience on domain adaptation, small sample construction, text mining, unsupervised/semi-supervised and other similar issues.
• Familiar with commonly used machine learning and deep learning algorithms, understand basic network model structure (DNN/LSTM/CNN, etc.) and text representation methods (LDA/Word2Vec/ELMo/GPT/BERT, etc.), have practical experience in deep learning training and reasoning model tuning.
• Experience in large-scale text data processing or cleaning (Such as using Hadoop/Spark/Hive/Flink).

About this role

Summary

Develop NLP/ML algorithms for knowledge graphs to enhance TikTok's e-commerce platform.

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer, NLP - TikTok E-commerce Knowledge Graph

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Seattle, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C++PythonTensorFlowPyTorchtext classificationtext matchingsequence labelingknowledge graph

Preferred skills

deep learning frameworksdistributed trainingdomain adaptationtext miningHadoopSpark

Specializations

machine learningNLPknowledge graphdeep learningtext processing
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

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