Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Governance) - 2027 Start (PhD)

About the role

The Governance and Experience Algorithm team was established in September 2020 to support e-commerce businesses with advanced AI technology, focusing on:

• Combating risks and violations in e-commerce scenarios
• Building a robust e-commerce ecosystem and improving platform service capabilities

As a member of this team, you will pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Develop algorithms to identify risks, violations, and low-quality issues in e-commerce scenarios, including products, shopping cart short videos, and live streaming with products
• Mine and identify algorithms to detect fraudulent behaviors and assess risky, violated, or low-quality merchants and creators
• Optimize algorithms for large-scale brand libraries, product deduplication/clustering, and content deduplication/clustering
• Work on data construction, instruction fine-tuning, chain-of-thought (CoT), alignment, and other tasks for large models in the e-commerce domain to achieve optimal performance
• Explore reinforcement learning and operational research algorithms for intelligent dispatching and audit scheduling to improve audit quality and efficiency

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Completing or recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
• Solid coding skills with the ability to develop in a Linux environment; proficiency in Python, Go, or C++
• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms, with expertise in machine learning/deep learning theory and practical experience
• Familiarity with 1-2 areas in natural language processing, computer vision, multimodal, graph algorithms, search algorithms, text/data mining, or large language models (LLM)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for tackling challenging problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong team spirit and communication skills
• Experience in platform governance, audit, risk control, content security, or overseas internet/e-commerce business

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $162,000 – $387,600 annually. Compensation may vary based on qualifications, skills, experience, and location. Additional compensation may include discretionary bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits

• Day-one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire, with increasing accruals by tenure)