TikTok
Tech Lead - TikTok Ecommerce Recommendation Algo
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in one of the listed or related fields.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads a team developing and scaling recommendation algorithms for TikTok Shop, including user-interest modeling and candidate-generation and ranking models.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and optimize large-scale e-commerce recommendation pipelines and models.
- Build user-interest models and develop, evaluate, and iterate on predictive models, including real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, and model optimization.
- Build and manage a global recommendation team and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define products and drive initiatives.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in recommendation systems, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or a related field.
- Experience leading an engineering team.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, responsibility, and an interest in solving complex problems.
AI focus
Develops machine-learning recommendation algorithms, user-interest models, and predictive models for candidate generation and ranking, including click-through-rate and conversion-rate prediction.
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