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Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok-Data-Search-NLP

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

Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer (Search & NLP)

Builds

Real-time search core algorithms, content understanding/matching systems, user behavior modeling, and video understanding features for TikTok search.

Domain

Social media, Search, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

NLP, Computer Vision (CV), algorithm design, data structures, distributed systems, machine learning, coding proficiency

Preferred skills

Ranking, recommender systems, search engine optimization, multi-modal models, user behavior modeling

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