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TikTok · 2 days ago

Machine Learning Engineer, Search - USDS

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$130K/yr - $246K/yr

1+ years exp

TikTok is a leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer for their Search team. The role involves improving search quality and user experience, designing end-to-end ranking systems, and promoting ecosystem development to enhance business growth.

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 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 user experience

Design and implement the end-to-end ranking system (recall, first stage ranking, final stage ranking and mixed row): Use massive behavioral data to deeply model users' personalized interests

Promote the 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 LearningData StructuresAlgorithmsSearch AlgorithmsNLPComputer Science DegreeAnalytical SkillsProblem Solving

Required

Bachelor or advanced degree in computer science or a related technical discipline

1+ year of Industry work experience in machine learning

Solid coding skills

Solid knowledge of data structure and algorithms

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

Preferred

Prior experience in search, recommendation, or advertisement algorithms

Publication records in top journals or conferences

Benefits

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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