About the role#
This internship is part of the E-commerce Alliance team. We focus on connecting merchants and creators within the TikTok Shop ecosystem. The team builds intelligent tools for affiliate operations and creates personalized product recommendations for users. You will work on large-scale search and recommendation systems, creator understanding, and machine learning solutions that influence commerce growth.
What you'll do#
- Design and build machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms for large-scale systems.
- Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and AI agents to help optimize affiliate strategies and improve business results.
- Apply LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning to identify new business opportunities.
- Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional engineering teams to move research into production.
- Prototype and productionize new technologies to improve intelligent commerce.
- Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows, including experimentation, model iteration, and deployment.
What you'll need#
- You are 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.
- Knowledge of machine learning, statistics, and big data engineering.
- Understanding of scaling distributed computing.
Location & details#
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
- Compensation: $57 per hour.
- Process: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
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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