Machine Learning Engineer, Search - Local Services Team

Join TikTok's Local Services team in Seattle for an on‑site role shaping the next generation of ML powered search and recommendation systems that help billions of users discover hospitality, dining, and leisure experiences. This position offers a competitive salary range of USD 148,200 to 300,960 per year, plus comprehensive benefits from day one and a culture dedicated to meaningful impact.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (day one access)
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

Responsibilities

• Support the local video service business to enhance user discovery of life services such as hospitality, dining, and leisure
• Improve the search experience in local services and promote ecosystem growth
• Apply large-scale machine learning techniques in search and recommendation across billions of users to improve user shopping experiences and boost conversion efficiency
• Design and implement end-to-end local services search algorithms across the full stack, including query analysis, relevance, recall, coarse ranking, fine ranking, and blended ranking; personalize behavior modeling for relevance; CTR prediction; CVR prediction; vector recall and value blending

Requirements

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Solid foundation in machine learning and deep learning with experience in NLP
• Exceptional coding skills with a strong grasp of data structures and algorithms
• Proficiency in Linux development environments
• Prior experience in search, recommendation, or advertisement algorithms
• Familiarity with local life services and e-commerce businesses

Technologies

• Linux

About the Team

The Data-Search-TikTok-Local Services team focuses on improving local service discovery for hospitality, dining, and leisure while driving ecosystem growth. They leverage large-scale machine learning to enhance search and recommendation systems, emphasizing personalized relevance, CTR/CVR prediction, and optimized conversion efficiency for billions of users.

About TikTok

TikTok is a leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Our global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, with offices around the world including New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creativity lies at the heart of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product helps people express themselves, discover, and connect, powered by diverse teams across the globe. We strive to create value for communities, inspire creativity, and bring joy every day.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to an inclusive environment that values diverse skills, experiences, and perspectives. Our workplace reflects the global communities we reach, and we actively celebrate diverse voices to support our mission of inspiring creativity and joy.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs, or other protected reasons. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request.

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.

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal and external clients and colleagues
• Handling and managing confidential information, including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems
• Exercising sound judgment