Responsibilities
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity;
to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together.
That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve. Join us.
About the team
On the TikTok Search Team, you will have the opportunity to develop and apply cutting edge machine learning technologies in real-time large-scale systems, which serve billions of search requests every day.
Via advanced NLP and multi-modal models, our projects impact and improve the search experience for hundreds of millions of users globally.
We embrace a culture of self-direction, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.
Responsibilities
- Optimize the searching quality to provide TikTok's users the best search experience
- Combine your understanding of product objectives and take full advantage of modern machine learning and information retrieval techniques to improve search quality and perception
- Build the core systems and algorithms development including query understanding, result ranking, query recommendation, system reliability, and etc.
- Provide technical leadership to drive search strategy iteration including query understanding, recall & ranking, query recommendation, reliability, etc.
- Provide guidance, regular feedback, and mentorship to team members.
Qualifications
- Bachelor or advanced degree in computer science or a related technical discipline
- 7+ years of related industry experience
- Experience as tech lead or leading complex and large projects
- Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure basis
- Experience in one or more of the following areas : NLP, Ranking, Ads, search engine, recommender system, distributed system, and machine learning
- Effective communication and teamwork skills.
- Proficiency in the following languages but not limited to : C / C++, Python, Java or Golang
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.
Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach.
We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws.
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