Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Search Local Services

Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Search Local Services at TikTok in Singapore.

Responsibilities

Our Search 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.

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 behaviour modeling for relevance computation; CTR (Click-Through Rate) prediction, CVR (Conversion Rate) prediction. Vector recall and value blending.

Requirements

1. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
2. Strong foundation in machine learning and deep learning, with experience in: NLP (Natural Language Processing), Personalization;
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.

About the Company

The Global Business Solutions (GBS) team is responsible for the revenue growth of the TikTok business, and our teams include Sales, Marketing, Ops, Account Managers, Agency and partnerships, as well as Marketing Science.

At TikTok, our Global Business Solutions (GBS) team plays a key role in generating revenue by promoting our advertising solutions, onboarding new clients, driving ad campaigns, and more. As the TikTok community grows at an unprecedented speed around the world, our GBS team leads groundbreaking projects that are changing the landscape of the advertising industry in real time.

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