Algorithm Engineer, E-commerce Knowledge Graph - USDS

Summary: TikTok USDS Joint Venture is focused on enhancing user experiences through advanced technology in e-commerce. The Algorithm Engineer will be responsible for developing a user profiling system, utilizing NLP, CV, and multimodal technologies to improve product recommendations and shopping experiences. Responsibilities: - Construct user profiling system to accurately depict each user's shopping interests by analyzing their behavioral patterns, preferences, and consumption habits during the shopping process - Utilise NLP, CV, and multimodal technologies to enhance understanding of short video content and products, supporting search, recommendation, and end-to-end shopping experiences in the marketplace - Explore large-scale and high-quality pretraining datasets in specific verticals of e-commerce, leveraging the power of the Byte Universal Model to develop industry-specific models for e-commerce - Discover new scenarios for interactive shopping experiences in e-commerce through these innovations Required Qualifications: - Deep research expertise in NLP, CV, and multimodal fields, including but not limited to machine translation, multilingual NLP, few-shot learning, reinforcement learning, image and video understanding, and multimodal analysis - Proficient in training and deploying models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other frameworks - Strong practical skills, with a preference for those who have project experience in video content understanding or multimodal retrieval - Priority will be given to individuals with awards from competitions such as Kaggle, COCO, ActivityNet, ICPC, NOI/IOI Preferred Qualifications: - Individuals who have published papers in academic conferences/journals - 1+ year relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business Required Skills: Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Multimodal Analysis, Machine Translation, Multilingual NLP, Few-shot Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Image Understanding, Video Understanding, Model Training, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Multimodal Retrieval Benefits: Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, A 401(k) savings plan with company match, Paid parental leave, Short-term and long-term disability coverage, Life insurance, Wellbeing benefits, 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year, 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)