Research Scientist, TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation

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 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 e-commerce platform.

Job title

Research Scientist, TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

on-site in Seattle, remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

recommendation algorithmnatural language processingmachine learningTensorFlowPyTorch

Preferred skills

deep learning

Specializations

machine learningrecommendation algorithmsnatural language processinglarge-scale data mining
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

On-site City