TikTok · 2 weeks ago
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Privacy and Data Protection Office) - 2026 Start (PhD)
United States
Internship
Remote
Intern
Start in 2026TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. They are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy machine learning algorithms, focusing on enhancing privacy and data protection.
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Responsibilities
The Machine Learning Engineer Intern will lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy sophisticated machine learning algorithms to enhance the performance of our business systems
Formulate end-to-end machine learning models by utilizing ML, NLP techniques to deal with real-world signals generated from privacy products/ incidents/ review areas
Analyze extensive, complex datasets to extract meaningful insights, identify opportunities for improvement, and facilitate data-driven decision-making
Design and execute experiments, testing and iterating on machine learning models to optimize recommendation functions and boost user satisfaction
Communicate final recommendations and drive decision making
Utilize data-driven techniques in building solutions to help measure, validate, identify, and envision TikTok's privacy evolution
Design and scope out projects, build operationalized analytics tools and platforms, and most importantly, use data and AI models to find insights, diagnose problems and tell compelling stories
Work closely with various XFN teams, including but not limited to engineering, legal, audit, security, public, government relations, and products
Build deep domain knowledge and build a strong domain expertise in privacy
Qualification
Required
Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research or other related field
Solid background in NLP and analytics, personalization/recommendation and hands-on experience and solid understanding of machine learning and deep learning methods
Experience performing data extraction, cleaning, analysis and presentation for medium to large datasets
Experience with at least one programming language (i.e. Python, R, Java, or C++)
Experience writing SQL queries
Experience with scientific computing and analysis packages such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, dplyr, or ggplot2
Preferred
Experience with statistics methods such as forecasting, time series, hypothesis testing, classification, clustering or regression analysis
Experience with data visualization libraries such as Matplotlib, Pyplot, ggplot2
Experience with machine learning libraries and deep learning toolkits such as PyTorch, Caffe2, TensorFlow, Keras or Theano
Experience with Large Language Model is a plus
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
TikTok
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
Founded in 2003
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
N Ali Mohamed
CEO
Blake Chandlee
VP Global Business Solutions
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