Responsibilities
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.
About the team
The success of TikTok's data business model hinges on the supply of a large volume of high quality labeled data that will grow exponentially as our business scales up. However, the current cost of data labeling is excessively high. The Data Solutions team is built to understand data strategically at scale for all Global Business Solution (GBS) business needs. Data Solutions Team uses quantitative and qualitative data to guide and uncover insights, turning our findings into real products to power exponential growth. Data Solutions Team responsibility includes infrastructure construction, recognition capabilities management, global labeling delivery management.
Responsibilities
• Lead technical research on bridging the understanding between human and machine learning.
• Build the library of elementary concepts that serve as factors to form content
• Interpretation of natural signals (image, audio, text, video) into structured computational signals for ML models to process like the human brain
• Identify patterns that indicate intentions, and verify them with experiments
• Incorporate a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques - such as logistic regression, clustering, mixed modeling, decision trees and neural networks - on multi-modal datasets
• Understand underlying data sources and their limitations. Create innovative approaches to answer pressing questions, prepare complex data analyses and models that help solve issues, drive the scaling of automated processes and deliver significant measurable impact
• Communicate with machine learning engineers and product partners to understand business needs and provide analytical solutions
• Act as an analytics translator, communicating complex data insights through exploratory analysis and research to discover potential bottlenecks to suggest improvement and workflow of internal teams
Qualifications
• Have a bachelors degree in Computer Science and an interest in decision science/psychology.
• Experience in Graph Neural Network(GNN) or NLP will be highly advantageous.
• Proven experience working with large datasets and relational databases (Hive, SQL)
• 3-7 years of hands-on behavioral/ cognitive research experience in a business environment
• Experience in statistics and experimental design and data mining techniques (k-means clustering, regression, decision trees, clustering, neural networks, etc.)
• Experience in programming computational and statistical algorithms for large data sets.
• Proficiency in Python packages such as pandas, seaborn, scikit-learn, dplyr or nltk
• Distinctive communications skills and ability to communicate analytical and technical content in an easy-to-understand way to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Intellectual curiosity, along with excellent problem-solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
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.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at View email address on click.appcast.io.
Job Information:
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $144000 - $312000 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recogn
Location: San Jose, CA
Posted: Aug. 9, 2024, 5:05 a.m.
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