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Machine Learning Engineer Intern (App Ads and Gaming) - 2027 Summer

TikTok · San Jose, CA

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Job details

Employment
Internship
Level
Internship
Education
Bachelor's degree
Posted
Oct 12, 2026
Last confirmed open
Oct 13, 2026
Job description

About this role

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TikTok is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer Intern for its App Ads and Gaming team. The role develops large-scale advertising systems and applied machine learning projects, owns ad-targeting components or strategies, and works with product and business teams on product vision.

Responsibilities

Participate in the development of a large-scale Ads system Responsible for the development of state-of-the-art applied machine learning projects Own key targeting components or strategies in the TikTok ads monetization ecosystem Work with product and business teams on product vision

Qualifications: Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or above degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline Experience in and good theoretical grounding in machine learning concepts and techniques Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Go, C/C++, Python Experience in one or more of the following frameworks: Tensorflow/PyTorch/MXNet, etc Ability to think critically and to formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during Summer 2027 Familiar with Ads system, recommendation, searching, ranking, etc

Benefits: Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

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