Graduate Machine Learning Engineer - Search & Ranking

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

Benefits offered by this job

Day one medical, dental, and vision

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 holidays per year

10 sick days per year

17 days Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok is hiring a Graduate engineer in San Jose to join the Search Engineering Team. This full-time role lets you work on core search algorithms, NLP, CV, and ML to improve video search relevance.

As a new graduate, you will gain hands-on experience building scalable search systems and collaborating across teams. You should be completing or recently completed a bachelor's or master's degree in a tech field and have experience with Python, Java, C++, Go, or JavaScript.

Qualifications

• Degree in a technical field (CS, CE, EE, data science, stats, math) or related.
• Experience with at least one programming language (Python, Java, C++, Go, or JavaScript).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to improving the search core algorithm using NLP, CV, and ML techniques.
• Model user behavior to enhance personalization in search results.
• Design, build, test, and maintain search services and data pipelines.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Go

JavaScript

NLP

ML

Info Retrieval

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering/Data Science or related

Tools

Distributed Systems

Databases

Data Pipelines

Online Experimentation

Backend Systems

Job description

TikTok is hiring a Graduate engineer in San Jose to join the Search Engineering Team. This full-time role lets you work on core search algorithms, NLP, CV, and ML to improve video search relevance.

As a new graduate, you will gain hands-on experience building scalable search systems and collaborating across teams. You should be completing or recently completed a bachelor's or master's degree in a tech field and have experience with Python, Java, C++, Go, or JavaScript.