ML Engineer, Search & Generative Recommendations

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in Seattle is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer for the Search team to advance video, ecommerce, local service, and AI search capabilities. You will work on state-of-the-art multimodal models and scalable systems.

Responsibilities include improving search quality, designing ranking pipelines, and collaborating with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to drive personalized experiences and GMV growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, ML, or related field.
• Proficient in TensorFlow or PyTorch; strong Python/Java/C++ programming and data structures.
• 2+ years in large-scale search or recommendation systems; familiarity with generative frameworks is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Improve search quality and user experience with multi-modal relevance matching.
• Design end-to-end ranking systems using large-scale behavioral data.
• Collaborate with product, data science, and infra teams to align search strategy with business goals.
• Explore generative recommendation approaches and GenRec-style frameworks.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to implement personalization and experiments.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Machine Learning

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science/ML

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in Seattle is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer for the Search team to advance video, ecommerce, local service, and AI search capabilities. You will work on state-of-the-art multimodal models and scalable systems.

Responsibilities include improving search quality, designing ranking pipelines, and collaborating with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to drive personalized experiences and GMV growth.