Graduate Machine Learning Engineer — Next-Gen Search & Personalization

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok in San Jose invites applications for a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok-Data-Search-Search Quality) with a 2027 start. This full-time program offers early-career engineers the chance to work on cutting-edge search, NLP, and CV methods within our Search Engineering Team.

As a graduate, you will tackle real-world problems, contribute to user-facing search quality, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Content understanding: Applying NLP and CV tech and leveraging LLM to match the most relevant videos for each search query, improving search relevance.
• User Behavior Modeling: addressing the recommendation problem in search to enhance personalization based on relevance.
• Video understanding: using NLP, CV, and LLM for better video understanding to improve search results' authority and usefulness.
• Search systems engineering: designing, building, testing, and maintaining search services and data pipelines to support search quality and latency.

Job description

TikTok in San Jose invites applications for a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok-Data-Search-Search Quality) with a 2027 start. This full-time program offers early-career engineers the chance to work on cutting-edge search, NLP, and CV methods within our Search Engineering Team.

As a graduate, you will tackle real-world problems, contribute to user-facing search quality, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.