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TikTok

Short-form video platform with ads

Machine Learning Engineer Intern - Global E-Commerce, Search

Applied Machine LearningConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Internship · Summer 2027SingaporeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Have excellent coding skills and solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
  • Be skilled in analysis, modeling, and problem-solving, including identifying the essence of problems in complex data.
  • Have industry work experience in machine learning and good product sense focused on user experience.

Responsibilities

  • Improve search quality and user experience by optimizing query analysis and text-relevance matching, understanding e-commerce video content, implementing multimodal matching, improving users' perception of product authority, and participating in the design and implementation of core search products.
  • Improve the end-to-end shopping experience from browsing through after-sales.
  • Design and implement the end-to-end ranking system, including recall, first-stage ranking, final-stage ranking, and mixed row.
  • Improve personalized shopping-interest models and merchandise, video, and livestream shopping conversion efficiency to promote gross merchandise value growth.
  • Address supply-and-demand matching, business cold start, and sustainable business growth challenges from industry and business perspectives; analyze and evolve the system to support long-term, sustainable growth of gross merchandise value.
  • Explore and develop personalized artificial-intelligence search, focusing on harness engineering, post-training optimization, and rubric-based automated evaluation.
  • Apply statistics, scripting, and programming languages required by the firm while working in a team setting.
  • Work with the relevant software platforms on which the models are deployed.

Desired Qualifications

  • Be self-driven, understand the business deeply, adapt to rapid business changes, communicate effectively, and promote project implementation.
  • Publication records in top journals or conferences are a plus.
  • Experience winning ACM-ICPC medals is a plus.

About the Company

TikTok

Short-form video platform with ads

TikTok is a short-form mobile video platform that lets people create, discover, and share quick videos. Users upload vertical clips, edit them with built-in tools, and browse a personalized feed powered by an algorithm that highlights relevant content. Advertisers can use in-feed ads, branded hashtags, and the Business Center to plan and measure campaigns, making it easy for brands to reach a global audience. Its goal is to inspire creativity and bring joy by helping people express themselves and by connecting brands with a wide audience.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$740K
Headquarters
Santa Monica, CA
Founded
2016

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