Machine Learning Engineer, Search engine, E-Commerce Alliance

Seattle, Washington, US Until 8/21/2026 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. Design and build large-scale machine learning algorithms to deeply optimize e-commerce search engines such as ranking, query analysis, and correlation calculation and various business indicators of sorting scenarios, including relevance, click-through rate, conversion rate, etc.
2. Build machine learning solutions and algorithm strategies by the analysis and mining of a large number of user query to empower the merchant side and improve the overall matching ability 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. Proficient in at least one programming language: c++, python, shell, and other programming skills, with a solid programming foundation and good programming style
2. Experience in algorithm development, familiar with the application and optimization of Sparse LR, DFFM, Deep&Wide, and DSSM on large-scale sparse data
3. Familiar with at least one mainstream deep learning programming framework (TensorFlow/Caffe/MXNet), familiar with commonly used deep learning algorithms

Preferred Qualifications
1. Able to solve problems independently, good sense of teamwork and communication skills;
2. Experience in search engines, recommendation systems, and computational advertising-related fields is preferred.

About this role

Summary

Design and build large-scale ML algorithms to optimize e-commerce search and improve user experience

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer, Search engine, E-Commerce Alliance

Experience level

null

Industry

e-commerce

Location requirements

Seattle, Washington, USA; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

programming: C++, Python, Shellalgorithm developmentSparse LRDFFMDeep&WideDSSMTensorFlow, Caffe, MXNet

Preferred skills

search enginesrecommendation systemscomputational advertising

Specializations

machine learningsearch enginesrecommendation systemsdeep learning
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

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