TikTok
Machine Learning Engineer - E-commerce Merchant and Creator Growth - San Jose
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years preferred; no minimum years stated.
- Education
- Master's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field preferred.
About the job
Develop machine-learning and data-mining solutions to grow TikTok Shop merchants and creators, including analyzing growth drivers and building scalable data pipelines and models.
What you'll do
- Analyze large-scale data to identify correlations and causal relationships related to merchant and creator growth.
- Partner with business, product, and data science teams to define data-mining goals and address business problems.
- Engineer features, build data pipelines, evaluate machine-learning approaches, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in SQL and Python, including data manipulation.
- Experience with big-data processing frameworks such as Hadoop or Spark and distributed computing.
- Solid understanding of machine- and deep-learning concepts, including feature engineering, model evaluation, and optimization.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with complex and unstructured datasets.
Nice to have
- Master's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Data Scientist; causal machine learning and experience in user growth, marketing, recommendation, or advertising algorithms are preferred.
Tools
SQL, Python, Hadoop, Spark
AI focus
Apply machine learning, deep learning, data mining, feature engineering, and causal inference to improve merchant and creator growth.
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