PhD ML Engineer Intern — Recommendations & Search

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Housing allowance

Paid holidays

Paid sick time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture invites PhD candidates to join a 12-week internship focused on building high-impact machine learning solutions for US users, including recommendations, search relevance, and e-commerce systems, with strong emphasis on data governance, privacy, and security.

You will design, train, and evaluate models, develop scalable pipelines, and work with distributed data to create real-time features. Strong coding skills and teamwork are essential.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Able to commit to a 12-week internship during Summer 2027.
• Proficient coding skills and strong algorithms/data structures.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and evaluate ML models for recommender systems or search ranking.
• Build efficient pipelines for feature extraction, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Process and analyze large-scale user behavior data using distributed systems to craft real-time and offline features.

Skills

Algorithms & DS

Programming

Communication

Education

PhD in Computer Science/CS/CE/SE

Tools

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture invites PhD candidates to join a 12-week internship focused on building high-impact machine learning solutions for US users, including recommendations, search relevance, and e-commerce systems, with strong emphasis on data governance, privacy, and security.

You will design, train, and evaluate models, develop scalable pipelines, and work with distributed data to create real-time features. Strong coding skills and teamwork are essential.