ML Engineer Intern: Generative Recommendation Foundations

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); Presencial; USD 41.000 - 69.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

TikTok Inc. is seeking PhD interns to contribute to the Recommendation Foundation team within Data - Global E-commerce. You will participate in end-to-end development of foundation models for recommendations, including multimodal content tokenization and LLM-integrated recommender experiments.

The role emphasizes research-minded software engineering, collaboration with experts, and rolling review of applications. Please specify your availability in your resume (start/end dates).

Formación

• Pursuing a PhD in CS, EE, math, statistics or related field.
• Strong foundation in ML and DL with interest in LLMs and generative recommendation.
• Proficiency in Python and DL frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Self-driven with a strong research mindset and solid engineering skills.

Responsabilidades

• Participate in the full training lifecycle of Recommendation Foundation Models (pre-, mid-, post-training).
• Design and train multimodal semantic tokenizers for recommendation items using foundation models.
• Develop LLM-native recommendation by integrating tasks into large language model training.
• Build next-gen recommendation systems across retrieval, ranking, and end-to-end generative recommendation.

Conocimientos

Machine learning

Deep learning

Research mindset

Self-driven

Educación

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

PyTorch

Python

Descripción del empleo

TikTok Inc. is seeking PhD interns to contribute to the Recommendation Foundation team within Data - Global E-commerce. You will participate in end-to-end development of foundation models for recommendations, including multimodal content tokenization and LLM-integrated recommender experiments.

The role emphasizes research-minded software engineering, collaboration with experts, and rolling review of applications. Please specify your availability in your resume (start/end dates).