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Original Job Post

TikTok · 6 days ago

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Seattle, WA

Internship, Full-time

Onsite

Intern Level

$57/yr - $57/yr

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Insider Connection @TikTok

Discover valuable connections within the company who might provide insights and potential referrals, giving your job application an inside edge.

Responsibilities

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.

Design, develop, evaluate and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation and ranking(eg. Click Through Rate and Conversion Rate prediction) , including, but not limited to building real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization and innovation.

Qualification

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Machine LearningDeep LearningData MiningLarge-Scale SystemsC++PythonTensorflowPytorchWork AuthorizationCollaborative FilteringMatrix FactorizationFactorization MachinesWord2vecLogistic RegressionGradient Boosting TreesDeep Neural NetworksWideDeepKaggleKDD-cup

Required

Currently pursuing a Master's degree or Phd's Degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Solid knowledge in one of the following areas: machine learning, deep learning, data mining, large-scale systems.

Experience with at least one programming language like C++/Python or equivalent.

Experience in Deep Learning Tools such as tensorflow/ pytorch.

Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment; Able to commit to working for 12 weeks starting May 2024

Preferred

Graduating December 2024 onwards with intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship.

Familiar with one or more of the algorithms such as Collaborative Filtering, Matrix Factorization, Factorization Machines, Word2vec, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting Trees, Deep Neural Networks, Wide and Deep etc.

Publications at KDD, NeurlPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, RECSYS and related conferences/journals, or experience in data mining/machine learning competitions such as Kaggle/KDD-cup etc.

Benefits

100% premium coverage for Full-Time intern medical insurance after 90 days from the date of hire

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Mental and emotional health benefits through Employee Assistance Program

Reimbursements for mobile phone expense

Company

TikTok

Glassdoor

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TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003