Algorithm Engineer, E-commerce Knowledge Graph - USDS

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking an Algorithm Engineer to enhance the recognition capabilities for users and products in e-commerce. The role involves constructing user profiling systems and utilizing NLP and CV technologies to improve 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 Skills Deep research expertise in NLP, CV, and multimodal fields, including but not limited to machine translation, 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 Individuals who have published papers in top-tier academic conferences/journals Minimum 1 year relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business Benefits 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) Company Overview TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship TikTok has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 979 in 2025, 601 in 2024, 387 in 2023, 322 in 2022, 133 in 2021, 72 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.