Senior ML Engineer — Local Services Search

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a Senior ML Engineer to advance local services search and recommendation systems, enabling discovery of hospitality, dining, and leisure experiences.

You will work with large-scale ML techniques to improve relevance, CTR/CVR, and conversion efficiency for billions of users. You will design end-to-end ranking pipelines, implement full-stack search solutions, and model personalized behavior to optimize user engagement.

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong foundation in machine learning and deep learning, with experience in NLP and personalization.
• Exceptional coding skills with solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Proficiency in Linux development environments.

Responsibilities

• Support the local video service business to enhance user discovery of life services such as hospitality, dining, and leisure.
• Improve the search experience in local services and promote ecosystem growth.
• Utilize large-scale machine learning techniques in search and recommendation scenarios with billions of users to: Improve user shopping experiences and Enhance conversion efficiency.
• Design and implement local services search algorithms across the full stack, including: Query analysis, relevance, recall, coarse ranking, fine ranking, and blended ranking. Personalization for relevance computation. CTR prediction, CVR prediction. Vector recall and value blending.

Skills

Analytical skills

Machine learning

Deep learning

NLP

Personalization

Coding

Data structures

Algorithms

Linux development

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking a Senior ML Engineer to advance local services search and recommendation systems, enabling discovery of hospitality, dining, and leisure experiences.

You will work with large-scale ML techniques to improve relevance, CTR/CVR, and conversion efficiency for billions of users. You will design end-to-end ranking pipelines, implement full-stack search solutions, and model personalized behavior to optimize user engagement.