Algorithm Engineer (NLP), TikTok e-Commerce

TikTok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require TikTok's sponsorship of a visa.

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

About the team
The team use the most advanced AI technology to combat various risks/violations in TikTok's e-commerce platform, maintain platform security, build a good e-commerce ecosystem, and empower business teams to improve work efficiency. We pursue the ultimate risk detection capability. The fairness and sustainability of the e-commerce ecosystem, high-quality content and merchandise are areas where we are constantly striving for improvement.

- Responsible for the risk identification model related to the text content (such as product description, picture text, oral broadcast description, etc.) in the e-commerce scene
- Responsible for product/short video/live comments, reports and other public opinion content risk mining algorithm, improve the platform governance effect
- Build an industry-leading content recognition method, and build a cross-domain and multi-dimensional recognition strategy for text content with adversarial behavior
- Explore NLP-related cutting-edge technologies and apply them to e-commerce business scenarios
- Support the production of scalable and optimised AI/machine learning (ML) models
- Focus on building algorithms for the extraction, transformation and loading of large volumes of realtime, unstructured data to deploy AI/ML solutions from theoretical data science models.
- Run experiments to test the performance of deployed models, and identifies and resolves bugs that arise in the process.
- Work in a team setting and apply knowledge in statistics, scripting and programming languages required by the firm.
- Work with the relevant software platforms in which the models are deployed.- Solid foundation of NLP algorithm, in-depth understanding and practical experience in text classification, similarity matching, dialogue question and answer, machine translation, sequence tagging, Knowledge Graph, intention understanding, word meaning disambiguation and other fields
- Familiar with commonly used machine learning and deep learning algorithms, understand the basic network model structure (DNN/LSTM/CNN, etc.) and text representation methods (LDA/Word2Vec/ELMo/GPT/BERT, etc.), and have practical experience in deep learning training and reasoning model tuning
- Strong hands-on ability, proficient in using at least one mainstream deep learning framework (TensorFlow/PyTorch/Caffe/MXNet), and understanding of distributed training, distillation acceleration and other implementation methods
- Excellent problem analysis and problem solving skills, have certain processing methods and optimization experience on domain migration, small sample construction, text mining, unsupervised/semi-supervised and other issues
- Master basic big data related components (Hadoop/Spark/Hive/Flink), and have experience in large-scale text data processing and cleaning
- Familiar with Linux development environment, proficient in C++ /go/python at least one programming language, and solid foundation in algorithms and data structures
- Good sense of teamwork and communication skills, practical experience in relevant business scenarios is preferred
- Published papers in high-level computer science conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NIPS, AAAI, etc.) or have competition experience are preferred

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.