Software Engineer - TikTok Search Engine

What you'll do

• Optimize search quality and user experience.
• Apply product goals, machine learning, and information retrieval techniques to improve search results.
• Develop core systems and algorithms for query understanding, result ranking, query recommendations, and reliability.

What they ask for

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another relevant major.
• At least 2+ years of experience developing and implementing large-scale consumer-facing services/products and/or building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• Proficiency in one or more of C/C++, Python, Java, or Golang.
• Effective team communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of search, recommendation, ranking, ads, or similar domains; and/or machine learning, deep learning, backend, large-scale systems, data science, or full-stack.
• Experience with Big Data Frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, or Flink.

Tools

C/C++, Python, Java, Golang, Hadoop, Spark, Flink

AI focus

Uses modern machine learning methods, including related areas such as NLP, CV, and recommender systems, to improve search quality; develops search algorithms for query understanding, ranking, and recommendations.