LLM Machine Learning Engineer, Vertical Search

ByteDance
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration","Initiative","Intellectual curiosity"]

Build and own vertical search quality and relevance for verticals and short-drama content. Apply multimodal understanding to align semantics across photo-text/short-drama inputs, optimize relevance models, and improve ranking and distribution using LLM/VML technologies. Own the engineering and performance lifecycle for model training, inference, and deployment while ensuring online stability. Conduct technical pre-research on semantic understanding and relevance matching to advance search business impact.

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ByteDance
ByteDance
1 month ago

LLM Machine Learning Engineer, Vertical Search

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Job Summary

Build and own vertical search quality and relevance for verticals and short-drama content. Apply multimodal understanding to align semantics across photo-text/short-drama inputs, optimize relevance models, and improve ranking and distribution using LLM/VML technologies. Own the engineering and performance lifecycle for model training, inference, and deployment while ensuring online stability. Conduct technical pre-research on semantic understanding and relevance matching to advance search business impact.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Iteratively optimize vertical search or independent short-drama app search quality and relevance algorithm directions.
  • •Use multimodal technology for content understanding to address semantic alignment and cross-modal matching challenges by integrating visual features and text semantics.
  • •Optimize relevance and quality models and improve vertical search distribution experience using LLM/VML technologies.
  • •Implement vertical search algorithm models end-to-end: training, inference, and deployment, ensuring online stability.
  • •Track cutting-edge technology trends and conduct pre-research and innovative practices for semantic understanding and relevance matching to improve team competitiveness.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree or above in a computer-related major, with strong coding ability and proficiency in C++ and/or Python, plus familiarity with data structures and algorithms.
  • •Solid foundation in machine learning and coding, with strong algorithm design and modeling skills, and familiarity with at least one of ML, data mining, NLP, image processing, multimodality, or large models.
  • •Ability to analyze and solve problems, with initiative, curiosity, and strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • •Preferred: understanding search business characteristics, including image quality evaluation, content relevance judgment, and multimodal content understanding.
  • •Preferred: experience in content search and recommendations.
Education:Bachelor's in computer-related major
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationInitiativeIntellectual curiosity
Tech Stack:C++PythonNLPComputer VisionMultimodalRecommender SystemsLLMVMLImage processingLarge modelsData mining

Company Brief

ByteDance
Develops consumer internet and content platforms, including TikTok and other apps for short-form video, news, and entertainment. It also builds advertising, commerce, and creator tools that connect audiences, brands, and publishers across global markets.
Industry: Digital Media
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Beijing, China
Founded: 2012
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