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Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok-Data-Search-Visual Search

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Develop and apply cutting-edge machine learning technologies in real-time large-scale systems to serve billions of search requests daily, improving the search experience for hundreds of millions of users globally via advanced NLP and multi-modal models.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (search & visual search)

Builds

Real-time search core algorithms, content matching systems, and user behavior modeling for TikTok search

Domain

Social media, search, NLP, computer vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

NLP, computer vision, ranking algorithms, distributed systems, machine learning, data structures

Preferred skills

Recommender systems, search engine optimization, ads technology

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