Data Engineering Intern Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Data engineering intern roles are among the most actively H-1B visa sponsored positions in tech. Employers filing LCAs for interns typically convert strong performers to full-time sponsored roles, making this a practical entry point into the U.S. work visa pipeline. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Ads Core team is chartered to build key monetization components across various ad delivery stages:
- We build up ranking, bidding, budget, format, diagnosis and other frameworks that serve as a mid platform to enable other ad teams to iterate their products in parallel.
- We implement outstanding traffic strategies to maximize revenue under the constraint of user experience and achieve complete exploration of advertiser's audience.
- Our model driven automation solutions optimize ad delivery performance from end to end. As a Project Intern, you will contribute to impactful short-term projects and gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, professional environment. This internship offers the opportunity to develop practical skills, apply your knowledge to real-world challenges, and explore your career interests. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities
- Help build foundational targeting data and platform capabilities, including:
- Gender, age buckets, geo targeting (country/region/city/POI/lat-long), device/OS, language, etc.
- Assist in user profile/targeting tag pipelines: ingestion, cleaning, definition alignment, tag generation and refresh.
- Develop batch and streaming jobs (depending on stack): offline (Hive/Spark), real-time (Flink/Kafka).
- Improve data quality: consistency checks, latency monitoring, anomaly alerting, backfill and remediation.
- Provide stable data services to ads delivery/strategy systems: audience packages, tag query, targeting rule parsing (with mentorship).
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Undergraduate/ Master's in CS/Data Engineering/IS or a related discipline.
- Strong SQL and solid data modeling fundamentals.
- Proficient in at least one language: Java/Scala/Python.
- Familiar with parts of big data ecosystem (Hive/Spark/Flink/Kafka/Airflow) is a plus.
- Detail-oriented; comfortable working on data definitions and quality governance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with user profiles, tagging systems, DMP/CDP, ads or recommender data pipelines.
- Exposure to privacy, anonymization, access control (as needed).
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern
The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $45 - $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:
- Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
- Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
- 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
Responsibilities
Ads Core team is chartered to build key monetization components across various ad delivery stages:
- We build up ranking, bidding, budget, format, diagnosis and other frameworks that serve as a mid platform to enable other ad teams to iterate their products in parallel.
- We implement outstanding traffic strategies to maximize revenue under the constraint of user experience and achieve complete exploration of advertiser's audience.
- Our model driven automation solutions optimize ad delivery performance from end to end. As a Project Intern, you will contribute to impactful short-term projects and gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, professional environment. This internship offers the opportunity to develop practical skills, apply your knowledge to real-world challenges, and explore your career interests. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities
- Help build foundational targeting data and platform capabilities, including:
- Gender, age buckets, geo targeting (country/region/city/POI/lat-long), device/OS, language, etc.
- Assist in user profile/targeting tag pipelines: ingestion, cleaning, definition alignment, tag generation and refresh.
- Develop batch and streaming jobs (depending on stack): offline (Hive/Spark), real-time (Flink/Kafka).
- Improve data quality: consistency checks, latency monitoring, anomaly alerting, backfill and remediation.
- Provide stable data services to ads delivery/strategy systems: audience packages, tag query, targeting rule parsing (with mentorship).
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Undergraduate/ Master's in CS/Data Engineering/IS or a related discipline.
- Strong SQL and solid data modeling fundamentals.
- Proficient in at least one language: Java/Scala/Python.
- Familiar with parts of big data ecosystem (Hive/Spark/Flink/Kafka/Airflow) is a plus.
- Detail-oriented; comfortable working on data definitions and quality governance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with user profiles, tagging systems, DMP/CDP, ads or recommender data pipelines.
- Exposure to privacy, anonymization, access control (as needed).
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern
The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $45 - $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:
- Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
- Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
- 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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Data Engineering Intern
Target companies with a history of intern-to-full-time conversion
Firms that sponsor H-1B visas for full-time engineers almost always convert high-performing interns first. A company with consistent LCA filings for data engineering roles is a strong signal they'll sponsor you after graduation.
Confirm OPT compatibility before your internship starts
Most data engineering internships qualify for F-1 OPT if the work directly relates to your degree in computer science, data science, or a related field. Confirm this with your DSO before accepting an offer to avoid authorization gaps.
Prioritize roles that mention H-1B sponsorship explicitly
Some companies sponsor full-time hires but not interns. Job postings that explicitly state H-1B sponsorship is available for conversion are the strongest candidates, especially at mid-size tech firms and data-intensive enterprises.
Build skills in tools employers actually file LCAs for
Apache Spark, dbt, Snowflake, and Airflow appear repeatedly in DOL LCA filings for data engineering roles. Demonstrating hands-on experience with these tools signals you can contribute immediately and strengthens your candidacy with sponsoring employers.
Understand the STEM OPT extension timeline before your internship ends
If your degree qualifies for STEM OPT, you may have up to three years of post-graduation work authorization. Apply for the 24-month extension early so there is no gap between your initial OPT and the extension period.
Ask about conversion pathways during the interview process
Asking about full-time opportunities and sponsorship during later interview rounds signals ambition and helps you assess employer intent. Companies with clear conversion pipelines are far more likely to support your visa status after graduation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a company sponsor a data engineering intern for a visa?
Internships themselves are not H-1B visa eligible, but F-1 students can work as data engineering interns under CPT or OPT without employer visa sponsorship. The sponsorship question becomes relevant after graduation, when employers file H-1B petitions to retain you full-time. Companies with active data engineering teams and a track record of LCA filings are your best prospects for that conversion.
What degree do I need to qualify for data engineering intern roles that lead to H-1B sponsorship?
A bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, information systems, or a closely related quantitative field satisfies the specialty occupation requirement for most data engineering roles. Some employers also accept degrees in mathematics or statistics paired with strong programming experience. The degree must match the role's technical requirements for an H-1B petition to hold up under USCIS review.
How competitive is H-1B sponsorship for data engineers compared to other tech roles?
Data engineering consistently ranks among the most sponsored roles in tech. DOL LCA disclosure data shows high filing volumes from companies across cloud infrastructure, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise software. Approval rates for data engineering petitions are strong relative to broader tech categories, partly because the specialty occupation argument is well-established and degree-to-role alignment is straightforward to document.
Where can I find data engineering intern roles that offer sponsorship pathways?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for roles open to visa sponsorship, so you can search data engineering internships without sorting through positions that exclude international candidates. Focusing your search there saves time and connects you directly to employers who have already indicated willingness to support work authorization, including post-graduation H-1B conversion.
Does a three-year Australian bachelor's degree qualify for data engineering H-1B petitions?
Yes. USCIS generally recognizes a three-year Australian bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or a related technical field as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree for H-1B specialty occupation purposes. Your employer's immigration attorney will typically document this equivalency as part of the petition. A degree evaluation from a recognized credential assessment service can further strengthen the filing.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Data Engineering Intern jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.