[Remote] Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-commerce-Recommendation) - 2026 Start (PhD)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ByteDance is a leading technology company known for its innovative products like TikTok. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to contribute to the E-commerce Recommendation Team by conducting research in machine learning algorithms and building large-scale recommendation systems for TikTok users.

Responsibilities

• Work in a team to conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning algorithms, such as retrieval and recommendation algorithms
• Participate in building large-scale (10 million to 100 million) e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems, including commodity recommendations, live stream recommendations, short video recommendations etc in TikTok
• Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently
• Apply machine learning algorithms to improve the different business scenarios, such as search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust and safety

Skills

• Currently pursuing PhD in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent industrial research experience
• Experience in one of the following fields: recommendation systems, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields preferred
• Familiar with at least one of the mainstream deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Benefits

• Interns have day one access to health insurance
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits and more
• Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
• Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

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