Machine Learning Engineer Intern

The E-commerce Alliance team aims to serve merchants and creators in the e-commerce platform to meet merchants' business indicators and improve creators' creative efficiency. By cooperating with merchants and creators, we aim to provide high-quality content and a personalized shopping experience for TikTok users, create efficient shopping tools at seller centers, and promote cooperation between merchants and creators. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. PhD Internships at ByteDance aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. PhD internships at ByteDance provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date). Responsibilities: - Design and implement cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to enhance our recommendation systems; - Apply machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision techniques to analyze e-commerce data and interactions; - Deploy and maintain scalable recommendation models for real-time query handling and product suggestions; - Analyze complex datasets to derive insights that guide strategic decisions; - Stay up-to-date with the latest machine learning developments, incorporating them into your work. Minimum Qualifications: - Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or related fields; - Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and top-notch problem-solving skills; - Profound knowledge in machine learning, statistics, and big data engineering. Preferred Qualifications: - Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; - Thorough understanding of data structures and algorithms, with excellent problem-solving ability; - Deep Understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering. By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://jobs.bytedance.com/en/legal/privacy