Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-commerce-Recommendation) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)

ByteDance • Seattle, WA

26d

About The Position

Our E-commerce Recommendation Team is responsible for building up and scaling our recommendation system to provide the best shopping experience for our TikTok users. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. Internships at ByteDance aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Turn your ambitions into reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at ByteDance Internships at ByteDance aim to provide students with hands-on experience in developing fundamental skills and exploring potential career paths. A vibrant blend of social events and enriching development workshops will be available for you to explore. Here, you will utilize your knowledge in real-world scenarios while laying a strong foundation for personal and professional growth. It runs for 12 weeks. 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 ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply as early as possible. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date). Summer Start Dates: May 11th, 2026 May 18th, 2026 May 26th, 2026 June 8th, 2026 June 22nd, 2026

Requirements

• Currently pursuing Master's degree 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.
• Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during Summer 2026

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees