Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce Recommendation Video)- 2027 Summer
TikTok, Seattle, Washington
What you will do
You will help build – and rewrite — an industrial recommendation system serving a billion-scale user base across short-video, livestream, and product scenarios, covering retrieval, pre-ranking, ranking, and blending end to end. Every iteration ships to production and directly moves user experience and GMV.
- Scale recommendation models like LLMs. Push ranking models from hundreds of millions to billions of parameters and chart the scaling laws of recommendation: behavior-corpus pretraining; multi-scenario, multi-task, multi-stage joint training; ultra-long behavior-sequence modeling (10K+ events) with KV caching, sequence compression, user/generation (U-G) disaggregated serving, speculative decoding, and dynamic batching — raising MFU while holding a strict millisecond latency budget.