Data Scientist - Multimedia

TikTok

San Jose, California, United States of America Posted October 26, 2026

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On-site Full-time Mid level
Job Description

Team Introduction
The Multimedia Data Scientist team at TikTok focuses on optimizing the app experience for users through data-driven solutions. Collaborating with various teams to enhance content creation journeys, utilizing statistical models and data mining techniques to identify opportunities for personalized user publishing experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Develop the experience metric system and the corresponding monitoring capability across different stages of creation
  • Conduct experimentation, define launch standards and provide suggestions on experiment iterations
  • Quantify the impact of creation tool performance on user behavior, such as publish rate, retention, and engagement
  • Use data mining for understanding user needs and build models that enable personalized publishing experience
  • Work with various partners on landing solutions that meet the needs for evolving products
  • Build systemic problem solving capability and research on cutting-edge methodologies

Minimum Qualifications

  • Experience in data science roles, preferably working on mobile application performance analysis and user experience optimization
  • Experience working with creation-oriented user behavior
  • Proficient in SQL and Python; experience with big data tools such as Hive or Spark.
  • Strong background in A/B testing, metric design, and causal inference.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience within the entertainment industry, streaming, social applications
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment with rapid product iterations
Required Skills
data science collaboration A/B testing problem solving UX SQL Python Spark testing
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