PhD ML Engineer: Multimodal E‑Commerce Search

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a PhD graduate for an engineering role within the Search E-Commerce team in Seattle. You will contribute to applied research and the development of our advanced search core, using NLP, CV, multimodal tech, and LLMs to improve search relevance for a global shopping audience.

You’ll collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate ideas into scalable product improvements, publish results, and tackle challenging problems at a fast-growing tech company.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a PhD in CS/EE/ML/IR.
• Experience in search, information retrieval, ranking, or ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Participate in applied research and improvement of the search core algorithm.
• Content understanding: applying NLP and CV tech and leveraging LLMs to match relevant videos to search queries.

Skills

Search & IR

NLP

Multimodal learning

LLMs

Experimentation

Education

PhD in CS/EE/ML/IR

Job description

TikTok is seeking a PhD graduate for an engineering role within the Search E-Commerce team in Seattle. You will contribute to applied research and the development of our advanced search core, using NLP, CV, multimodal tech, and LLMs to improve search relevance for a global shopping audience.

You’ll collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate ideas into scalable product improvements, publish results, and tackle challenging problems at a fast-growing tech company.