Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search - Local Services Team

San Jose, California, US Until 8/21/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted April 4, 2026
Job description

Description

About the Team:
The Data-Search-TikTok-Local Services team enhances local services by improving user discovery of hospitality, dining, and leisure experiences while driving ecosystem growth. They leverage large-scale machine learning to refine search and recommendation systems, focusing on personalized relevance, CTR/CVR prediction, and optimized conversion efficiency for billions of users.

Responsibilities:
1. Support the local video service business to enhance user discovery of life services such as hospitality, dining, and leisure.
2. Improve the search experience in local services and promote ecosystem growth.
3. Utilize large-scale machine learning techniques in search and recommendation scenarios with billions of users to: Improve user shopping experiences & Enhance conversion efficiency.
4. Design and implement local services search algorithms across the full stack, including: Query analysis, relevance, recall, coarse ranking, fine ranking, and blended ranking. Personalized behavior modeling for relevance computation. CTR (Click-Through Rate) prediction, CVR (Conversion Rate) prediction. Vector recall and value blending.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
1. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
2. Strong foundation in machine learning and deep learning, with experience in: NLP (Natural Language Processing).
Personalization.
3. Exceptional coding skills with solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
4. Proficiency in Linux development environments.

Preferred Qualifications
1. Prior experience in search, recommendation, or advertisement algorithms.
2. Familiarity with local life services and e-commerce businesses.

About this role

Summary

Develop and optimize ML-based search and recommendation algorithms for local services.

Job title

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search - Local Services Team

Experience level

senior level

Industry

software

Location requirements

Based in San Jose with remote options allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

machine learningdeep learningNLPcodingLinux

Preferred skills

searchrecommendatione-commerce

Specializations

machine learningdeep learningsearchrecommendationNLP
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

Hybrid City