Machine Learning Engineer Intern (TikTok-Data-Search-Search Quality) - 2027 Start (PhD)
Core
Building search retrieval, ranking, and recommendation systems to improve search quality for TikTok's global user base.
Role type
PhD Intern, Machine Learning Engineer (Search & Recommendation)
Builds
Search features, services, and tools for TikTok
Domain
Consumer social media, large-scale search, machine learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
NLP, ranking algorithms, recommender systems, distributed systems, machine learning, large-scale data processing, algorithm design, data structures
Preferred skills
Information retrieval, content understanding, data mining, experimentation, large-scale backend services
Technologies
NLP frameworks, distributed system frameworks, search engine components
Responsibilities
Design and implement search features and tools, analyze large-scale data and logs to improve search quality, collaborate with cross-functional teams on project milestones, write maintainable code and documentation.
Seniority
Intern, research & development
