Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure, TikTok Search Engine
TikTokAbout the role
About the Team
Our Search Team is responsible for building and owning TikTok's search engine, which provides our users the best search experience.
On the TikTok Search Team, you’ll have the opportunity to build a full-stack search engine system and combine information retrieval technology with modern machine learning methods from related fields such as NLP, CV, and recommender system. 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.
• Potentially mentor and lead peers depending on experience
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