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Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Seattle, United States of America💼 Internship🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Design and build machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms to power large-scale e-commerce systems for TikTok Shop, serving millions of users and merchants.

Role type

PhD intern, machine learning engineer (recommendation/search)

Builds

Large-scale e-commerce recommendation systems, AI-powered merchant operation tools, and AI agents for affiliate strategy optimization.

Domain

E-commerce, recommendation systems, search, large-scale distributed computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, statistics, big data engineering, data structures, algorithms, LLMs, NLP, multimodal machine learning

Preferred skills

Scaling distributed computing, model iteration, evaluation, and deployment

Technologies

LLMs, NLP, multimodal ML

Responsibilities

Design and build cutting-edge ML algorithms for real-time product recommendations; Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and AI agents; Apply state-of-the-art LLMs and NLP to discover business opportunities; Collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring AI solutions to production; Rapidly prototype and productionize new technologies; Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows.

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