Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok-Data-Search-Basic Ranking) - 2027 Start (PhD)

What you'll do

• Research and improve search core algorithms, including content understanding, user behavior modeling, and video understanding.
• Develop retrieval, ranking, relevance evaluation, query understanding, multimodal search, or LLM application methods.
• Translate research ideas into scalable product improvements.

What they ask for

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a PhD in a listed or related technical field.
• Must have graduated with an applicable degree before onboarding.
• Research or practical experience in at least one listed area, such as search, information retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, NLP, multimodal learning, LLMs, data mining, or machine learning systems.
• Must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

Nice to have

• Publications, preprints, patents, open-source contributions, or research projects in relevant areas.
• Experience or familiarity with large-scale retrieval, ranking, model training, evaluation, online experimentation, distributed systems, production ML systems, relevance evaluation, query understanding, semantic retrieval, vector search, LLM applications, or multimodal search.

Tools

NLP, CV, LLM

AI focus

Apply NLP, computer vision, and LLMs to content and video understanding, search relevance, query matching, personalization, retrieval, ranking, evaluation, and multimodal search.