Machine Learning Engineer Graduate

About the Role

This full-time Graduate role provides early-career engineers the opportunity to join one of our engineering teams. The Search E-Commerce team spearheads the development of TikTok's advanced search algorithm, crucial for its booming global e-commerce platform. Our goal is to deliver the best e-commerce search experience to over a billion monthly TikTok users worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

You will have the opportunity to:

• Participate in the improvement of the search core algorithm, possible directions include:
• Content understanding: Applying the industry's cutting-edge NLP and CV technology and leveraging LLM to match the most relevant videos for each search query, and continuously improve the relevance of TikTok search.
• User Behavior Modeling: Solving the recommendation problem in search, increasing TikTok search's ability of personalization on the basis of "relevant", and understanding users better.
• Video understanding: Comprehensive use of NLP, CV, as well as LLM for better video understanding from the perspective of the video itself and social network, improve authority, credibility, and usefulness of search results.
• Search systems engineering: Designing, building, testing, and maintaining search services, data pipelines, tools, or platform components that support search quality, reliability, latency, and user experience.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Java, C++, Go, or JavaScript through coursework, internships, projects, or equivalent practical experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with search, recommendation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, ranking, data mining, or backend systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, databases, data pipelines, online experimentation, or large-scale service development.
• Experience using data or metrics to debug, evaluate, or improve a product or system.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Interest in building Search products and systems for a large-scale consumer platform.

*Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

*As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States. For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship or any immigration-related benefits.