ML Engineer, Real-Time Video Search & Ranking

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a candidate to advance its search team with real-time ML on a large-scale platform serving billions of search requests. You will work on content understanding, user behavior modeling, and video understanding to boost search relevance and credibility.

The role emphasizes cutting-edge NLP and multimodal techniques, with a culture of curiosity, openness, and problem-solving within a fast-paced team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or advanced degree in computer science or a related technical discipline.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.
• Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure basis.
• Experience in NLP, Ranking, Ads, search engine, recommender system, distributed system, and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the improvement of the search core algorithm.
• Content understanding/matching: apply NLP and CV tech to match videos to queries and improve relevance.
• User behavior modeling: enhance personalization in search based on relevance.
• Video understanding: leverage NLP/CV for better search results and credibility.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Coding skills

Algorithms

Data structures

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking a candidate to advance its search team with real-time ML on a large-scale platform serving billions of search requests. You will work on content understanding, user behavior modeling, and video understanding to boost search relevance and credibility.

The role emphasizes cutting-edge NLP and multimodal techniques, with a culture of curiosity, openness, and problem-solving within a fast-paced team.