TikTok
ML Infra Engineer Intern (Ads Infra) - 2027 Summer
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's/ Master's in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning or a related discipline.
About the job
Build and optimize infrastructure and machine learning systems that support TikTok advertising recommendations, data processing, model training and serving, and privacy enforcement.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize advertising recommendation models and their training, evaluation, and inference workflows.
- Build large-scale data pipelines and ML platforms for data processing, distributed training, model distribution, and online serving.
- Explore MLLM and AI-agent applications, and build platforms for GPU scheduling, cost accounting, and utilization optimization.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's/ Master's in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning or a related discipline.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as C++, Python, Go or Java.
- Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, machine learning and computer systems.
- Familiarity with recommendation systems, MLLMs, distributed systems, ML platforms or large-scale data processing.
Nice to have
- Experience with deep learning frameworks, distributed training, GPU scheduling, AI agents or cloud-native technologies.
Tools
C++, Python, Go, Java
AI focus
Advertising recommendation models; MLLM applications in advertising, including data production, training, fine-tuning, and inference optimization; AI agents for workflow orchestration, resource scheduling, failure diagnosis, and automated operations.
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