Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok-Data-Search-Visual Search) - 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, query understanding, relevance evaluation, multimodal search, or LLM application methods.
• Translate research ideas into scalable product improvements.

What they ask for

• Completing or recently completed a PhD in a listed technical field or a related technical field.
• Research or practical experience in at least one listed area, such as search, information retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, NLP, or machine learning systems.
• Able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.
• Able to establish authorization to work in the United States.

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, or related search methods.

Tools

NLP, CV, LLM, information retrieval, recommendation systems, multimodal learning, vector search, distributed systems

AI focus

Applies NLP, CV, and LLMs to content and video understanding, query matching, personalization, retrieval, ranking, and search evaluation.