[Remote] Software Engineer Intern (Recommendation Infrastructure) - 2026 Summer (Bachelor/Master)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Software Engineer Intern for their Recommendation Architecture Team. This role involves building and optimizing high-performance online services and data pipelines for TikTok's recommendation system, providing valuable hands-on experience for students.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system to support various types of products, such as For You Feed, E-commerce, Social, etc
• Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc
• Build globalized large-scale recommendation system
• Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems

Skills

• Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Master in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
• Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
• Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Python
• Effective communication skills, self-driven learner, a sense of ownership
• Projects or research experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus
• Graduating December 2026 onwards with the intent to return to degree program after the completion of the internship

Benefits

• Interns have day one access to health insurance
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits and more
• Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year
• 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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