Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Vertical Search Intern - 2025 Start

Responsibilities

About the team
Our Search Team is responsible for building and owning TikTok's search engine which provides our users the best search experience. On the TikTok Search Team, you'll have the opportunity to build a full-stack search engine system and combine information retrieval technology with modern machine learning methods from related fields such as NLP, Computer Vision, Multimodal, and Recommender Systems. We embrace a culture of self-direction, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period.

Responsibilities
- Optimize the searching quality to provide TikTok's users the best search experience
- Combine your understanding of product objectives and take full advantage of modern machine learning, NLP and Multimodal techniques to improve the search ranking algorithms, including query understanding, video understanding and various levels of result ranking

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor degree or above in the field of computer science or a related technical discipline
- Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure using C++/Python/Java

Preferred Qualifications
- Effective communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: NLP, Ranking, Ads, Search engine, Recommender System, and Machine Learning

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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com