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Tech Lead - TikTok Ecommerce Recommendation Algo

TikTok

San Jose, CA · Posted November 13, 2026

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E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. We are a group of applied machine learning engineers and data scientists that focus on E-commerce recommendations. We are developing innovative algorithms and techniques to improve user engagement and satisfaction, converting creative ideas into business-impacting solutions. We are interested and excited in applying large scale machine learning to solve various real-world problems in E-commerce.

Responsibilities: • Lead the team to design, build, optimize large-scale (10 million to 100 million) e-commerce recommendation algorithm pipeline • 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. • Design, develop, evaluate and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation and ranking(eg. Click Through Rate and Conversion Rate prediction) , including, but not limited to building real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization and innovation. • Build, expand and manage the global e-commerce recommendation team from scratch • Collaborate with strategy team, product managers, policy team and ops team to define products and drive initiatives from engineering viewpoints

Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field • 3+ years of working experience in one of the following fields: recommendation system, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields. • Experience in leading an engineering team • Strong sense of responsibility and good at communication and teamwork • Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems