TikTok
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce User Growth) - 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 machine-learning algorithms and product solutions that grow TikTok e-commerce users through personalization, recommendations, and intelligent marketing.
What you'll do
- Optimize user value modeling, personalized messaging, recommendations, and intelligent marketing algorithms.
- Build user lifecycle data and value systems to address user-growth challenges.
- Implement and improve growth solutions, including personalized notifications and new-user recommendations, and use uplift models and operations research to improve marketing efficiency.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Strong machine-learning and engineering fundamentals, including model mathematics, clean and reproducible coding, algorithms, and data structures.
- Deep research or engineering practice in at least one of LLMs/foundation models, NLP, CV, RL, or recommendation/search/ads.
- Enthusiasm for deploying LLM/LRM techniques in production and ability to define and decompose ambiguous problems.
Nice to have
- Papers published in top AI conferences or journals, or notable ACM/Machine Learning competition results.
- Experience in recommendation systems, advertising, user growth, intelligent marketing, or related areas; expertise in LTV estimation, uplift modelling, operations research, sequence modelling, or multi-scenario modelling optimization.
Tools
LLMs, foundation models, NLP, CV, RL, recommendation, search, ads
AI focus
Apply machine learning to e-commerce user growth, recommendations, personalized messaging, and intelligent marketing; optimize uplift models and new-user recommendation algorithms.
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