TikTok
Software Engineer Intern (TikTok - Effects Performance) - 2027 Summer
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in a listed or related technical discipline.
About the job
Develop and optimize TikTok Camera’s effects rendering architecture, performance analysis tools, and mobile effects for smoother, lower-power experiences.
What you'll do
- Contribute to research, development, design, and implementation of effect performance architecture and new rendering-engine capabilities.
- Help build automated performance analysis pipelines for trace capture, bottleneck analysis, and regression detection.
- Profile and optimize frame rate, latency, memory use, and power across mobile devices.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Graphics, or a related technical discipline.
- Able to work for 12 weeks during Summer 2027.
- Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms, and proficiency in at least one coding language.
- Curiosity about graphics, real-time rendering, and mobile performance; strong problem-solving ability and grasp of scalable software engineering.
Nice to have
- Understanding of real-time rendering and graphics APIs such as OpenGL ES, Metal, or Vulkan.
- Experience with GPU and rendering performance tools, or interest in AI Agent development and LLM-powered engineering tools.
Tools
C++, Python, Javascript, OpenGL ES, Metal, Vulkan, RenderDoc, Perfetto
AI focus
Assist with agent-assisted bottleneck analysis; AI Agent development and LLM-powered engineering workflow tools are areas of interest.
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