About the role#
The E-commerce Alliance team builds systems that connect merchants and creators within the TikTok Shop ecosystem. As an intern, you will work on large-scale recommendation and search systems, creator and product understanding, and machine learning solutions that influence commerce growth. This role offers hands-on experience and the chance to apply academic knowledge to real-world challenges alongside industry professionals.
What you'll do#
- Design and build machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms for large-scale e-commerce systems.
- Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and agents to help optimize affiliate strategies and improve business ROI.
- Apply LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning to identify new business opportunities.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to move AI solutions from research into production.
- Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows, including experimentation, model iteration, and deployment.
- Stay current with advances in AI and machine learning by prototyping and productionizing new technologies.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of machine learning, statistics, and big data engineering.
- Understanding of scaling distributed computing.
Location & details#
- Location: Seattle, Washington.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
- 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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