Team Introduction

: TT-Search Algorithm & Applied AI is the algorithm team behind the search business built on TikTok (TikTok Search), with the goal of becoming the search engine of choice for users worldwide. Compared with recommendation systems, which passively infer user intent, search delivers content based on users' discovery motivation — making intent expression more precise — and can in turn feed back into the recommendation engine. We are at an inflection point where the search paradigm is shifting from retrieval-and-ranking toward Agents proactively completing tasks. With large language models and Agents as our two driving wheels, we build the search LLM foundation, the Agent execution framework (Harness), multi-agent collaboration, and self-improvement closed loops, supporting the implementation of business scenarios such as multimodal AIGC, visual search, on-device intelligence, and long-horizon task Agents — spanning POI search, Wish search, automated evaluation, inf...