TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Software Engineer Intern for their Recommendation Infrastructure Team. The role involves building and maintaining high-performance services and data pipelines for TikTok's recommendation system.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system
Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc
Work with your mentor to build globalized large-scale recommendation system
Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems
Qualification
Required
Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during Summer 2026
Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Masters degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang
Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
Preferred
Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications
Demonstrated experience in one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus
Benefits
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.
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
