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TikTok · 7 hours ago

Engineer Graduate: (Machine Learning Engineer Graduate - Search E-Commerce - Seattle) - 2026 Start (PhD)

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$130K/yr - $246K/yr

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate to join their Search E-Commerce team. The role focuses on improving the search algorithm for TikTok's e-commerce platform, enhancing user experience and optimizing product discovery.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Improve the basic search quality and user experience: Optimize query analysis and text relevance matching

Understand e-commerce video content and implement multi-modal matching. Improve users' perception of product authority, and deeply participate in the design and implementation of core search products

Comprehensively improve the end-to-end shopping experience from browsing to after-sales

Design and implement the end-to-end ranking system (recall, first stage ranking, final stage ranking and mixed row): Improve users' personalized shopping interests model

Improve the shopping conversion efficiency for merchandise, video and live stream to promote GMV growth

Promote the robust development of the ecosystem: From the perspective of the industry and businesses, solve challenging problems such as supply and demand matching, business cold start, and sustainable business growth, etc

Think, analyze and adjust the evolution of the system to achieve long-term and sustainable growth of GMV

Qualification

Machine LearningNLPComputer VisionPythonC/C++Deep LearningData MiningAnalysisModelingPublication RecordsACM-ICPC MedalsProblem Solving

Required

PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related field

Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Familiar with one or more of the following areas: recommendation systems, machine learning, deep learning, data mining, computer vision, NLP, or multimodal machine learning

Strong proficiency in Python and/or C/C++, and familiarity with a machine learning framework

Solid knowledge of data structure and algorithms

Excellent in analysis, modeling and problem-solving, and can see the essence of problems from complex data

Preferred

Publication records in top journals or conferences will be a plus

Experience winning ACM-ICPC medals will be a plus

Benefits

Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

Company

TikTok

Glassdoor3.4

TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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