Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities The E-commerce Alliance team connects merchants and creators across the TikTok Shop ecosystem. We help merchants achieve their business goals by building intelligent and automated affiliate operation tools, while providing creators with efficient and highly personalized product recommendations that make it easier to discover the right products and create high-quality content. By improving merchant–creator matching, recommendation, search, and end-to-end collaboration efficiency, we aim to expand merchants’ marketing opportunities, increase creators’ monetization potential, and deliver a more engaging and personalized shopping experience to TikTok users. Our team works on large-scale recommendation and