Software Engineer Project Intern (Content AI Infrastructure) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)
Core
Design and build scalable content understanding system architectures for training and inference of large models (LLMs) to support recommendation, security, and push notifications.
Role type
Software Engineer Project Intern (Content AI Infrastructure)
Builds
Highly available, low-latency content understanding inference architecture for TikTok's massive content
Domain
Internet / Content AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed frameworks (Flink/Spark), Message queues (Kafka/Pulsar), High-concurrency system design, C++/Python/Java programming, LLM training and inference optimization
Preferred skills
Recommender systems experience, Large model (LLM) experience, Competitive programming experience
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