ByteDance · 2 weeks ago
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-commerce-Recommendation) - 2026 Start (PhD)
United States
Internship
Remote
Intern
$57/hr - $57/hr
Start in 2026ByteDance 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.
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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
Qualification
Required
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.
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
Founded in 2012
10001+ employees
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Funding
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