Machine Learning Engineer Graduate

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

About the Role

This full-time Graduate role provides early-career engineers the opportunity to join one of our engineering teams. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, letting TikTok search increase the 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, improving 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

• Minimum Qualifications:
• 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.
• Preferred 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Additional Information

• For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship or any immigration-related benefits.
• As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States.
• Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
• Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.