Algorithm Engineer, Search - NLP (Campus Recruitment 2025)

at  Shopee

Department Engineering and Technology
LevelEntry Level
LocationSingapore
The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don’t limit ourselves on what we can or can’t do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee’s hyper-growing business scale has transformed most “innocent” problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Develop and implement state-of-the-art machine learning models to optimize retrieval and relevance modules in e-commerce search including the application of text classification, semantic-based relevance models, multi-modal and multi-lingual models, large language models, etc.
• Responsible for optimizing query understanding in e-commerce search scenarios, including query rewriting, auto-correction, query structured understanding, intent classification, etc.
• Perform fundamental research and experiment with cutting-edge NLP technologies including LLM, multi-modal pre-training models, etc.
• Optimize Search product performance and data performance through data analysis, machine learning models, and systems.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Be familiar with at least one of the following programming languages, C++/golang/Python, and have good knowledge of data structure and algorithms.
• Be familiar with NLP and Search retrieval, and be able to continue to follow up on cutting-edge machine learning technologies
• Applicants good at data analysis using Spark SQL/Scala are preferred.
• Sensitive to data and business, passionate about technical challenges, and have excellent critical thinking skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress.

Please refer the Job description for details