Search Architecture Intern: Build Fast, Global Search

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 17,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

TikTok is offering a software engineering internship in our Search Architecture team for a 2027 start. The role focuses on designing and optimizing the search system architecture to support high availability and performance across global users.

Qualified students pursuing CS/CE/IS with strong skills in C++, Python, or Java will collaborate on large-scale search engine components, ML model optimization, and work within a global team.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure knowledge using C++/Python/Java.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Solve core architecture optimization problems for large-scale search engines including retrieval, ranking, and recall systems
• Design and implement heterogeneous computing architectures supporting large-scale machine learning model optimization in search scenarios
• Build high-concurrency, low-latency search system architectures supporting high-throughput global user query processing

Skills

C++

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Job description

TikTok is offering a software engineering internship in our Search Architecture team for a 2027 start. The role focuses on designing and optimizing the search system architecture to support high availability and performance across global users.

Qualified students pursuing CS/CE/IS with strong skills in C++, Python, or Java will collaborate on large-scale search engine components, ML model optimization, and work within a global team.