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Machine Learning Engineer Intern (TikTok-Data-Search-Search Quality) - 2026 Start (PhD)
Location
:
San Jose
Employment Type
:
Intern
Job Code
:
A46838
Responsibilities
The Search team builds the systems that help users find relevant, reliable, and engaging content across TikTok. The team works across search retrieval, ranking, recommendation signals, query understanding, relevance, infrastructure, and product experiences. Our work combines large-scale machine learning, data-driven product development, and distributed systems to improve search quality for a global user base.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.
Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date).
Responsibilities
- Support the design, implementation, testing, and iteration of Search features, services, or tools under the guidance of engineers and mentors.
- Work with large-scale data, logs, metrics, or experiments to understand user search behavior and improve product or system quality.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data science, and machine learning partners to define requirements and deliver project milestones.
- Write clear, maintainable code and documentation for assigned workstreams.
- Communicate progress, risks, and learnings with mentors and stakeholders throughout the internship.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work.
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure basis.
- Effective communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: NLP, Ranking, Ads, search engine, recommender system, distributed system, and machine learning.
- Experience with search, recommendation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, ranking, ads, content understanding, or data mining projects.
- Familiarity with databases, distributed systems, data pipelines, experimentation, or large-scale backend services.
- Experience using data to investigate product, user, or system problems.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate with cross-functional partners.
- Interest in improving search experiences for large-scale consumer products.
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern
The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60- $60.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok Accommodation
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at
https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (TikTok-Data-Search-Search Quality) - 2026 Start (PhD)
Location
:
San Jose
Employment Type
:
Intern
Job Code
:
A46838
Responsibilities
The Search team builds the systems that help users find relevant, reliable, and engaging content across TikTok. The team works across search retrieval, ranking, recommendation signals, query understanding, relevance, infrastructure, and product experiences. Our work combines large-scale machine learning, data-driven product development, and distributed systems to improve search quality for a global user base.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.
Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date).
Responsibilities
- Support the design, implementation, testing, and iteration of Search features, services, or tools under the guidance of engineers and mentors.
- Work with large-scale data, logs, metrics, or experiments to understand user search behavior and improve product or system quality.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data science, and machine learning partners to define requirements and deliver project milestones.
- Write clear, maintainable code and documentation for assigned workstreams.
- Communicate progress, risks, and learnings with mentors and stakeholders throughout the internship.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work.
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure basis.
- Effective communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: NLP, Ranking, Ads, search engine, recommender system, distributed system, and machine learning.
- Experience with search, recommendation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, ranking, ads, content understanding, or data mining projects.
- Familiarity with databases, distributed systems, data pipelines, experimentation, or large-scale backend services.
- Experience using data to investigate product, user, or system problems.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate with cross-functional partners.
- Interest in improving search experiences for large-scale consumer products.
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern
The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60- $60.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok Accommodation
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at
https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in machine learning intern jobs.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one ML framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Hands-on experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts including supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning
- Currently enrolled in or recently completed a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, data science, or a related field
- Experience with data manipulation libraries such as NumPy, pandas, or scikit-learn
- Demonstrated project work or research published in a portfolio, GitHub repository, or academic paper
Tips for Your Machine Learning Intern Job Search
Lead your resume with project impact
Employers scan for measurable outcomes, not just tools used. Quantify what your models actually achieved, such as accuracy improvements or inference speed gains, rather than listing frameworks. Descriptions like 'improved classification accuracy by reducing false positives on a held-out test set' outperform generic skill lists.
Post your notebooks before you apply
Most machine learning intern reviewers look for a GitHub or portfolio link before reading your resume. Push clean, commented notebooks for your two or three strongest projects, add a brief README explaining the problem and your approach, and include that link prominently on your resume and application.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists machine learning intern openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Match your keywords to each job description
Hiring teams often filter by specific frameworks or research areas. If a posting calls out PyTorch, reinforcement learning, or time-series forecasting, mirror that exact language in your resume where it honestly applies. Generic ML resumes get filtered out before a human reviewer sees them.
Prepare to explain your training pipeline end to end
Technical screens for machine learning interns almost always include a walkthrough of a past project. Practice explaining your data preprocessing choices, model selection rationale, and evaluation metrics out loud. Interviewers probe where you made trade-offs, not just whether your model worked.
Follow up with a specific technical observation
After a technical interview, send a follow-up note that references one concrete detail from the conversation, such as an alternative architecture you mentioned or a dataset edge case you discussed. It signals genuine engagement and keeps your name tied to the technical substance of the interview.
Machine Learning Intern Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most machine learning interns?
The most active employers for machine learning interns right now are TikTok, PlusAI, and ByteDance, and the most openings are in California, Washington, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is concentrated at technology companies, financial services firms, and research-oriented healthcare organizations.
How many machine learning intern jobs are remote?
About 13% of machine learning intern openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how much of the work centers on code and experimentation rather than on-site hardware. Roles focused on NLP research and software-side model development tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions involving specialized compute infrastructure or lab data are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a machine learning intern?
Start by building a foundation in Python, linear algebra, probability, and core ML algorithms through coursework or self-study. Then complete two or three end-to-end projects, from data collection through model evaluation, and publish them in a public repository. Apply to roles that match your current skill set, and tailor each application to the specific research area or product focus listed in the posting.
Can you get a machine learning intern role with little experience?
Yes, focused project work can substitute for professional experience at the intern level. Build and document a complete ML project, even on a public dataset, that walks through problem framing, preprocessing, modeling, and evaluation. Courses with hands-on assignments, Kaggle competition write-ups, and open-source contributions all signal practical readiness to reviewers who know you haven't held a prior ML role.
What does the machine learning intern interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical phone interview covering ML fundamentals, probability, and coding. A take-home or live coding challenge often follows, asking you to train or debug a model on a small dataset. Final rounds usually include a project deep-dive where you walk through your own work, and a conversation with the team about research direction or product goals.
Where can I find and apply to machine learning intern jobs?
You can find and apply to machine learning intern jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your skills and research interests, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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