Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-commerce-Recommendation) - 2025 Summer/Fall (BS/MS)

$120,120 - $120,120/Yr

Bytedance - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Intern

Seattle, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content. 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 2024. 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. Internships at TikTok 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 12-24 weeks and begins in May/June 2025 or August/September 2025. Successful candidates must be able to commit to one of the following start dates below: (Select below options for Summer) - Monday, May 12 - Monday, May 19 - Tuesday May 27 (Memorial Day May 27) - Monday, June 9 - Monday, June 23 (Select below options for Fall) - Monday, August 11 - Monday, August 25 - Monday, September 8 - Monday, September 22. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date). Candidates who pass resume evaluation will be invited to participate in ByteDance's technical online assessment through HackerRank.

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.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a BS/MS 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.

Benefits

• Hourly rate range for this position is $57.75.
• 100% premium coverage for Full-Time intern medical insurance after 90 days from the date of hire.
• Paid holidays and paid sick leave.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through our Employee Assistance Program.
• Reimbursements for mobile phone expenses.