TikTok

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search - Local Services Team

TikTok$202K — $368K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Expertise in machine learning and deep learning, particularly in NLP.
  • Strong coding skills with a solid grasp of data structures and algorithms.
  • Proficient in Linux development environments.
  • Preferred: Experience with search, recommendation, or advertisement algorithms.
  • Preferred: Knowledge of local life services and e-commerce businesses.

Responsibilities

  • Support local video service business to enhance user discovery of life services.
  • Improve search experience in local services and drive ecosystem growth.
  • Utilize large-scale machine learning to enhance user shopping experiences.
  • Design and implement local services search algorithms across the stack.
  • Model personalized behavior for relevance computation.
  • Perform CTR and CVR predictions for optimization.
  • Execute vector recall and value blending strategies.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company matching.
  • Paid parental leave and short-term/long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits provided.
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 sick days annually.
  • 17 paid personal days, with accrual based on tenure.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

About the Team: The Data-Search-TikTok-Local Services team enhances local services by improving user discovery of hospitality, dining, and leisure experiences while driving ecosystem growth. They leverage large-scale machine learning to refine search and recommendation systems, focusing on personalized relevance, CTR/CVR prediction, and optimized conversion efficiency for billions of users. Responsibilities: 1. Support the local video service business to enhance user discovery of life services such as hospitality, dining, and leisure. 2. Improve the search experience in local services and promote ecosystem growth. 3. Utilize large-scale machine learning techniques in search and recommendation scenarios with billions of users to: Improve user shopping experiences & Enhance conversion efficiency. 4. Design and implement local services search algorithms across the full stack, including: Query analysis, relevance, recall, coarse ranking, fine ranking, and blended ranking. Personalized behavior modeling for relevance computation. CTR (Click-Through Rate) prediction, CVR (Conversion Rate) prediction. Vector recall and value blending.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications 1. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. 2. Strong foundation in machine learning and deep learning, with experience in: NLP (Natural Language Processing). 3. Exceptional coding skills with solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms. 4. Proficiency in Linux development environments. Preferred Qualifications 1. Prior experience in search, recommendation, or advertisement algorithms. 2. Familiarity with local life services and e-commerce businesses.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $202160 - $368220 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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1,750 employees
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Founded
2012

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