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San Jose, CA

Internship

Onsite

$45/hr - $45/hr

Intern

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. The Data Scientist Intern position focuses on optimizing the app experience for users through data-driven solutions, including developing metrics, conducting experiments, and collaborating with teams to enhance content creation journeys.

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Responsibilities

Develop the experience metric system and the corresponding monitoring capability across different stages of creation
Conduct experimentation, define launch standards and provide suggestions on experiment iterations
Quantify the impact of creation tool performance on user behavior, such as publish rate, retention, and engagement
Use data mining for understanding user needs and build models that enable personalized publishing experience
Work with various partners on landing solutions that meet the needs for evolving products
Build systemic problem solving capability and research on cutting-edge methodologies

Qualification

Required

Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Master in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline
Experience in data science roles, preferably working on mobile application performance analysis and user experience optimization
Experience working with creation-oriented user behavior
Proficient in SQL and Python; experience with big data tools such as Hive or Spark

Preferred

Experience within the entertainment industry, streaming, social applications
Experience working in a fast-paced environment with rapid product iterations
Experience in A/B testing, metric design, and causal inference

Benefits

Day one access to health insurance
Day one access to life insurance
Day one access to wellbeing benefits and more
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

TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

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