Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Global E-Commerce, Search) - 2026 Start (PhD) Technology - [...]

ByteDance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Singapore is seeking a talented individual with a PhD in Software Development or a related field to join their Algorithm team. The job involves enhancing the search quality for e-commerce, designing personalized ranking systems, and working collaboratively in a team to solve complex challenges. Ideal candidates will have excellent coding skills, experience in machine learning, and a strong focus on user experience. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative projects in a rapidly growing global business.

Qualifications

• Must have recently completed or be completing a PhD in a relevant technical discipline.
• Strong coding skills and knowledge of data structures.
• Experience in machine learning with a focus on user experience.

Responsibilities

• Improve search quality and user experience through analysis and optimization.
• Design and implement personalized ranking systems.
• Promote ecosystem growth addressing supply and demand challenges.
• Collaborate with teams using statistics and programming.
• Work with software platforms for deploying models.

Skills

Coding skills

Data structure and algorithms

Analysis and problem-solving

Machine learning

Education

PhD degree in Software Development or related field

Job description

Location:

Team: Algorithm

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A40243

Responsibilities

Team IntroductionThe Search E-Commerce team is responsible for the search algorithm for our rapidly growing global e-commerce business. We use state‑of‑the‑art large‑scale machine learning technology, the cutting‑edge NLP, CV and multi‑modal technology to build the industry's top‑class search engine to provide the best e‑commerce search experience, for more than 1 billion monthly users around the world. Our mission is to build a world where "there is no hard‑to‑sell good‑priced product in the world". We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

• 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 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.
• Work in a team setting and apply knowledge in statistics, scripting and programming languages required by the firm.
• Work with the relevant software platforms in which the models are deployed.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Excellent coding skills. Solid knowledge of data structure and algorithms.
• Excellent in analysis, modeling and problem‑solving, and can see the essence of problems from complex data.
• Industry work experience in machine learning. Good product sense with a focus on user experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Self‑driven, able to deeply understand the business, adapt to rapid business changes, have good personal expression and communication skills, and be able to promote project implementation.
• Publication records in top journals or conferences will be a plus. Experience winning ACM‑ICPC medals will be a plus.