ML Engineer Intern: E‑Commerce Logistics & LLM Agents

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 22,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

TikTok, in Seattle, invites PhD students to join as a Machine Learning Engineer Intern focused on E-commerce Supply Chain & Logistics. The role emphasizes LLMs, agents, and retrieval systems applied to complex logistics problems at global scale.

Interns will contribute to AI-native capabilities, exploring reinforcement learning, workflow automation, and evaluation frameworks within the TikTok logistics program.

Qualifications

• Pursuing PhD in AI/CS/OR/automation/stats or related.
• Experience with LLMs, agents, RAG, tool use, post-training, evaluation or NLP.
• Strong Python; familiar with Java/C++/Go/TypeScript.
• Familiar with ML/DL frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX.

Responsibilities

• Apply LLMs, agents, RL and retrieval systems to real logistics problems at global scale.
• Contribute to AI-native capabilities within the E-commerce Global Supply Chain & Logistics team.

Skills

PhD candidate

LLMs & agents

Python

Java/C++/Go/TS

ML frameworks

Education

PhD degree in related field

Tools

LangChain

Hugging Face

vLLM

Job description

TikTok, in Seattle, invites PhD students to join as a Machine Learning Engineer Intern focused on E-commerce Supply Chain & Logistics. The role emphasizes LLMs, agents, and retrieval systems applied to complex logistics problems at global scale.

Interns will contribute to AI-native capabilities, exploring reinforcement learning, workflow automation, and evaluation frameworks within the TikTok logistics program.