ML Engineer Intern: Recommendations & Search (PhD)

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays

Housing allowance

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture invites PhD candidates to join a 12-week internship in Seattle, focusing on building and scaling high-impact ML solutions for personalized experiences while upholding strict data privacy and security standards.

You will design, train, and evaluate ML models, develop end-to-end pipelines, and analyze large-scale user data to enable real-time and offline features in a highly secure environment.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in a technical field such as CS, CE, or SE.
• Able to commit to a 12-week internship in Summer 2027.
• Proficient coding skills and solid data structures knowledge.
• Effective communication and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and evaluate ML models for recommender systems or search ranking.
• Build efficient pipelines for feature extraction, model training, and A/B testing.
• Analyze massive user data and logs to create real-time and offline features.

Skills

PhD student

Strong coding

Communication

Teamwork

Education

PhD in Computer Science / Computer Engineering

Tools

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture invites PhD candidates to join a 12-week internship in Seattle, focusing on building and scaling high-impact ML solutions for personalized experiences while upholding strict data privacy and security standards.

You will design, train, and evaluate ML models, develop end-to-end pipelines, and analyze large-scale user data to enable real-time and offline features in a highly secure environment.