Algorithm Engineer (Growth)

About the Growth Team

The Growth team plays a core role in acquisition, activation, and retention of billions of users, through our globally popular products such as TikTok, Resso, CapCut, Helo, etc. We are building platform foundation, leveraging data and ML models, and providing end-to-end solutions to power global growth of our products. Typical Growth projects include referral, notifications, paid ads, etc.

Responsibilities

• Design and apply machine learning algorithms and product strategies to user growth methods to expand product impact as well as improve users' experiences;
• Understand user growth instruments and use data and machine learning algorithms or other strategies to make it thrive;
• Conduct offline and online experiments, analyze according data and evaluate to improve algorithms and strategies;
• Work with Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Product and other engineers to deliver features to drive the user growth of products.

Qualifications

• Final year or recent Master's graduate students with a background in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics or a related technical discipline from a university;
• Experience with statistical software (e.g. R, Python, MATLAB, pandas) and database languages (e.g. SQL);
• Software development experience through hands-on coding in a general purpose programming language;
• Knowledge of statistical data analysis such as linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, sampling methods;
• Experience in user growth is a plus.