AI Agent Engineer Intern, Payments Data Intelligence

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (day one)

Life insurance (day one)

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Sick time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a student to join a 12-week Summer 2027 internship on the USDS Payment Data Intelligence team. You will help build agent-first AI applications for payment scenarios, working with product, strategy, engineering, and data teams to identify high-value AI use cases across risk control, compliance, operations, and payment intelligence.

You will design agent orchestration workflows and implement them via Agent Platform or LangGraph-like scripts, applying prompt

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Able to commit to a 12-week internship during Summer 2027.
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with Java, Scala, or TypeScript is a plus.
• Solid understanding of LLMs, agentic AI concepts, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI application development.

Responsibilities

• Understand payment business scenarios and transform them into AI-first agentic applications based on the latest AI paradigms.
• Work with product, strategy, engineering, and data teams to identify high-value AI use cases across risk control, compliance, operations, user growth, and payment intelligence.
• Design and develop agent orchestration workflows, including task decomposition, tool selection, memory/context design, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and failure handling.
• Implement agent workflows visually on Agent Platform or programmatically using LangGraph-like scripts, depending on the use case and production requirements.

Skills

Python

LLMs

Agent AI

Prompt engineering

LangGraph

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Master's degree pursuing

Tools

SQL

Hive

Spark

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a student to join a 12-week Summer 2027 internship on the USDS Payment Data Intelligence team. You will help build agent-first AI applications for payment scenarios, working with product, strategy, engineering, and data teams to identify high-value AI use cases across risk control, compliance, operations, and payment intelligence.

You will design agent orchestration workflows and implement them via Agent Platform or LangGraph-like scripts, applying prompt