ML Engineer — LLMs for Local Search & Personalization

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunity

Access to global data and scale

Job summary

TikTok is building the Local Service Search team in Singapore, focusing on search algorithms that power both general search and local services. You will work on POI search, video ranking, and AI-driven search experiences to connect users with places, services and content.

Join a team that combines LLMs, retrieval, and multimodal understanding to deliver evidence-based answers and improve transaction efficiency for users across regions.

Qualifications

• Solid foundation in ML and DL with NLP/IR experience.
• Strong coding skills and proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Ability to validate solutions with offline experiments and online tests.

Responsibilities

• Own query understanding, content understanding, relevance, and POI retrieval and ranking.
• Leverage LLMs to understand multilingual expressions and extract structured information.
• Improve search results using semantic retrieval, geolocation signals and CTR/CVR modeling.
• Contribute to model training, evaluation, and rollout of search products.

Skills

Machine learning

Natural language processing

Information retrieval

Personalization modeling

LLM applications

Tools

C++

Python

Linux

Job description

TikTok is building the Local Service Search team in Singapore, focusing on search algorithms that power both general search and local services. You will work on POI search, video ranking, and AI-driven search experiences to connect users with places, services and content.

Join a team that combines LLMs, retrieval, and multimodal understanding to deliver evidence-based answers and improve transaction efficiency for users across regions.