Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start (PhD)
Core
Design and build machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms to power large-scale e-commerce systems for TikTok Shop, serving millions of users and merchants.
Role type
PhD intern, machine learning engineer (recommendation/search)
Builds
Large-scale e-commerce recommendation systems, AI-powered merchant operation tools, and AI agents for affiliate strategy optimization.
Domain
E-commerce, recommendation systems, search, large-scale distributed computing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine learning, statistics, big data engineering, data structures, algorithms, LLMs, NLP, multimodal machine learning
Preferred skills
Scaling distributed computing, model iteration, evaluation, and deployment
Technologies
LLMs, NLP, multimodal ML
Responsibilities
Design and build cutting-edge ML algorithms for real-time product recommendations; Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and AI agents; Apply state-of-the-art LLMs and NLP to discover business opportunities; Collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring AI solutions to production; Rapidly prototype and productionize new technologies; Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows.
