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Software Engineer Project Intern (Recommendation Infrastructure, TikTok Video Social) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

TikTok
San Jose, United StatesinternshipVerifiedPosted 20 Apr 2026

About the role

About the Team

The Recommendation Architecture - Social Team is responsible for building and optimizing the architecture of our recommendation system to provide the best social experience for our TikTok users.



As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests.



Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.



Responsibilities

- Build globalized large-scale recommendation system;

- Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc;

- Coach AI to perform release process and production operations, including online anomaly detection and diagnose, release safeguards, etc.

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TikTok

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