About the role#
We are looking for an intern to join the E-commerce Global Supply Chain and Logistics team. You will work on AI-native capabilities for global logistics, including logistics agents, address intelligence, and workflow automation. This position focuses on applying LLMs, reinforcement learning, and software engineering to logistics problems at a global scale.
What you'll do#
- Support the development of large language models and agent systems for global e-commerce supply chain and logistics.
- Build domain LLM capabilities, including model training, preference optimization, and inference optimization for tasks like address correction and root-cause analysis.
- Develop multimodal and structured understanding capabilities to model text, numerical time series, images, and documents for supply chain simulation.
- Create core agent capabilities for business workflows, including task decomposition, RAG, tool use, and evidence grounding.
- Assist with agent architecture, engineering, and evaluation, including runtime orchestration, memory management, and regression testing.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in an undergraduate program for Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Development, or a related field.
- Experience with LLMs, agents, RAG, tool use, post-training, or applied NLP systems.
- Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with at least one production-oriented language like Java, C++, Go, or TypeScript.
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Hugging Face, or LangChain.
- Research or project experience in agent systems, workflow orchestration, LLM post-training, or building evaluation datasets is preferred.
- Experience with e-commerce, logistics, operations research, or knowledge graphs is a plus.
- A portfolio of published papers, open-source contributions, or hands-on projects in AI engineering or machine learning systems.
Location & details#
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time intern position.
- Compensation: $42.75 per hour.
About TikTok
TikTok operates as an entertainment provider. The company maintains a global presence with offices in cities including Los Angeles, Singapore, New York, London, and Tokyo. It employs over 92,000 people. The organization is privately held.
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