AI-Driven Software Test Engineer (Search)

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Software Test Engineer (AI) for TikTok Search to design and deliver AI-powered testing and evaluation solutions across query understanding, retrieval, ranking, and multimodal search scenarios.

The role requires strong programming skills in Python/Go/Java/C++, experience with large-scale data systems, and a passion for Generative AI and LLM capabilities. Join a team focused on quality, reliability, and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in a technical field.
• Experience in software quality assurance or testing for large-scale data- or algorithm-driven systems is a plus.
• Solid understanding of software testing methodologies, debugging, and QA best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver AI-powered testing and evaluation solutions for TikTok Search.
• Build LLM-based evaluation pipelines for relevance, faithfulness, and safety; maintain multilingual query sets and datasets.
• Drive change impact analysis across the search stack and strengthen release quality gates.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify quality and productivity pain points and drive AI-powered solutions into production.
• Improve engineering productivity by building AI agents and tooling for automated test generation and bug analysis.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Retrieval, Data Science

Tools

LLM evaluation tools

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Software Test Engineer (AI) for TikTok Search to design and deliver AI-powered testing and evaluation solutions across query understanding, retrieval, ranking, and multimodal search scenarios.

The role requires strong programming skills in Python/Go/Java/C++, experience with large-scale data systems, and a passion for Generative AI and LLM capabilities. Join a team focused on quality, reliability, and innovation.