Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation, E-Commerce Alliance

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

The e-commerce alliance team aims to serve merchants and creators in the e-commerce platform to meet merchants' business indicators and improve creators' creative efficiency. By cooperating with merchants and creators, we aim to provide high-quality content and a personalized shopping experience for TikTok users, create efficient shopping tools at seller centers, and promote cooperation between merchants and creators.

Job responsibilities:
1. Build and design large-scale machine learning algorithms to model the real-time interests of creators to improve conversion efficiency
2. Optimize TikTok's massive commodity relationship mining and ranking and recall of creators' product recommendations, and improve the overall GMV of the platform
3. Use the large scale of data to deeply analyze the behavior of creators and merchants and build targeted algorithm strategies to empower creators and merchants, improve merchants' monetization efficiency, and boost industrial upgrading
4. Support the rapid development of TikTok's e-commerce business, serve millions of merchants, explore more efficient business models, satisfy users with the best shopping experience, and promote healthy ecological development

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
1. 3+ years of industry experience with solid theoretical foundation of machine learning;
2. Familiar with common algorithms such as matrix factorization, GBDT, LTR, Word2vec, DIN, Deep&Wide;
3. Proficient in Python and C++ languages

Preferred Qualifications
1. Proficiency in using any of the following open source tools: XGboost, TensorFlow, Caffe;
2. Have excellent learning ability and good communication and cooperation spirit.

About this role

Summary

Build and optimize machine learning algorithms for e-commerce recommendations and merchant analysis

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation, E-Commerce Alliance

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Based in Seattle, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonC++machine learningrecommendation algorithms

Preferred skills

XGboostTensorFlowCaffe

Specializations

machine learningrecommendation algorithmse-commerce
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

Work arrangement unknown City