TikTok
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 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
Build machine learning, recommendation, ranking, and AI-agent systems for TikTok Shop’s e-commerce ecosystem, supporting product discovery and merchant affiliate operations.
What you'll do
- Design and build large-scale recommendation and ranking algorithms for real-time product recommendations.
- Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and agents to automate affiliate strategy and business workflows.
- Apply LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning, collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring AI solutions into production.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms, with strong problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of machine learning, statistics, and big data engineering.
Nice to have
- Understanding of scaling distributed computing.
- Deep understanding of machine learning, statistics, and big data engineering.
Tools
LLMs, NLP
AI focus
Develop recommendation, ranking, and multimodal ML systems; create AI-powered merchant operations and agents; use ML agents to automate algorithm development, experimentation, evaluation, and deployment.
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