Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok Search

Singapore Until 8/21/2026 5+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted March 29, 2026
Job description

Description

TikTok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Our Company's sponsorship of a visa.

About the team
Our Search Team is responsible for building and owning TikTok's search engine which provides our users the best search experience. On the TikTok Search Team, you’ll have the opportunity to build a full-stack search engine system and combine information retrieval technology with modern machine learning methods from related fields such as NLP, Computer Vision, Multimodal, and Recommender Systems. 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, NLP and Multimodal techniques to improve the search ranking algorithms, including query understanding, video understanding and various levels of result ranking.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor degree or above in the field of computer science or a related technical discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience in search / recommendation
• Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure using C++/Python/Java
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: NLP, Ranking, Ads, Search engine, Recommender System, and Machine Learning

Preferred Qualification
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.

About this role

Summary

Build and optimize TikTok's search engine using ML, NLP, and multimodal techniques.

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok Search

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Singapore-based, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C++PythonJavasearchrecommendationNLPranking

Preferred skills

communicationteamwork

Specializations

machine learningNLPmultimodalsearch engine
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Singapore

Work arrangement unknown Country