AI Machine Learning Engineer Intern (TikTok Search) - 2026 Start (PhD)
Core
Building and owning TikTok's search engine by combining information retrieval with modern machine learning methods (NLP, Computer Vision, Multimodal, Recommender Systems) to provide users with the best search experience.
Role type
PhD Intern, AI Machine Learning Engineer (Search)
Builds
Full-stack search engine system, multimodal video search, personalized search recommendations
Domain
Internet / Search / Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
C++, Python, algorithms and data structures, deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision, distributed systems
Preferred skills
LLMs (comprehensive learning, single-modal/multi-modal application and deployment), Ads, Recommender System modeling
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