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Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce Recommendation Live)- 2027 Summer

Seattle, Washington · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Education
Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

About the job

Develop and optimize recommendation models and multimodal solutions for TikTok Shop live commerce, taking research through experiments and scalable launches.

What you'll do

  • Build and optimize models across recall, pre-ranking, ranking, and mixed ranking to improve business and user-value metrics.
  • Develop cross-domain and multimodal models connecting videos, live streams, products, and user behavior.
  • Partner with teams to launch scalable solutions, run experiments, and translate research into business impact.

What they ask for

  • Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Solid machine-learning foundation and knowledge of at least one area: recommendation systems, search, advertising, NLP, multimodal learning, or large-scale applied AI.
  • Strong Python or C++ skills and hands-on experience with PyTorch.
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and large-scale model training or production machine-learning systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience in recommendation systems or related large-scale consumer products; generative recommendation, large recommendation models, or retrieval and ranking systems.
  • Experience with LLMs or multimodal foundation models, cross-domain learning, LTV modeling, causal inference, or large-scale distributed training and inference optimization.

Tools

Python, C++, PyTorch

AI focus

Recommendation modeling for live commerce, including generative recommendation, large recommendation models, reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, and long-term value optimization.

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