Research Scientist, TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation

San Jose, California, 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 E-commerce Recommendation Team is responsible for building up and scaling our recommendation system to provide the best experience for our TikTok users.

Responsibilities:
• Conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning algorithms, such as retrieval and recommendation algorithms.
• Participate in building large-scale (10 million to 100 million) e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems, including commodity recommendations, live stream recommendations, short video recommendations etc in TikTok.
• Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently.
• Apply machine learning algorithms to improve the different business scenarios, such as search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust and safety.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
• MS/PhD in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent industrial research experience.
• 3+ years of working experience in one of the following fields: recommendation algorithm, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Familiar with at least one of the mainstream deep learning frameworks, like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems

About this role

Summary

Research and develop recommendation algorithms for TikTok's e-commerce platform.

Job title

Research Scientist, TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

San Jose, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

machine learningrecommendation algorithmsdata analysisnatural language processing

Preferred skills

deep learning frameworksTensorFlowPyTorch

Specializations

machine learningrecommendation algorithmsnatural languagevideo understanding
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

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