Senior Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok Search Algorithm (Ranking, Relevance, Understanding, User Engagement)

On the TikTok Search Team, you will have the opportunity to develop and apply cutting edge machine learning technologies in real-time large-scale systems, which serve billions of search requests every day. Via advanced NLP and multi-modal models, our projects impact and improve the search experience for hundreds of millions of users globally. We embrace a culture of self-direction, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.



Responsibilities

• Optimize the searching quality to provide TikTok's users the best search experience

• Combine your understanding of product objectives and take full advantage of modern machine learning and information retrieval techniques to improve search quality and perception

• Build the core systems and algorithms development including query understanding, result ranking, query recommendation, system reliability, and etc.

• Provide technical leadership to drive search strategy iteration including query understanding, recall & ranking, query recommendation, reliability, etc.

• Provide team guidance, regular feedback, education, coaching and mentoring.