About the role#
The E-commerce Alliance team works on the TikTok Shop ecosystem to connect merchants and creators. We build intelligent tools for affiliate operations and personalized product recommendations. Our work involves large-scale search and recommendation systems that help merchants grow and creators monetize their content. This internship offers the chance to contribute to our products and research while working with industry experts.
What you'll do#
- Design and build machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms for large-scale e-commerce systems.
- Develop AI-powered merchant 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 and cross-functional teams to bring AI solutions from research to production.
- Prototype and deploy new technologies to support intelligent commerce.
- Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows, including model iteration and evaluation.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
- Profound knowledge in machine learning, statistics, and big data engineering.
- Experience with scaling distributed computing.
Location & details#
- Location: San Jose, California.
- Type: Full-time internship.
- Modality: On-site.
- Term: Rolling basis.
- Compensation: $60 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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