Team Introduction: The E-commerce Alliance team connects merchants and creators across the TikTok Shop ecosystem. We help merchants achieve their business goals by building intelligent and automated affiliate operation tools, while providing creators with efficient and highly personalized product recommendations that make it easier to discover the right products and create high-quality content.
By improving merchant–creator matching, recommendation, search, and end-to-end collaboration efficiency, we aim to expand merchants’ marketing opportunities, increase creators’ monetization potential, and deliver a more engaging and personalized shopping experience to TikTok users. Our team works on large-scale recommendation and search systems, intelligent affiliate operations, creator and product understanding, and machine learning solutions that impact commerce growth.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. Our internship program offers students hands-on experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges while building a strong foundation for personal and professional growth.
Interns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals. Candidates may apply to a maximum of two positions across Our Company and its affiliates globally. Applications will be considered in the order they are submitted.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume, including your start and end dates.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build cutting-edge machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms to power large-scale e-commerce recommendation systems that deliver high-quality, real-time product recommendations for millions of users.
- Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and AI agents that help merchants optimize affiliate strategies, improve business ROI, and lower the barrier to growing their business through automation.
- Apply state-of-the-art LLMs , NLP, and multimodal machine learning to discover new business opportunities , driving sustainable growth for both merchants and creators.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to bring innovative AI solutions from research to production.
- Stay at the forefront of advances in AI and machine learning, rapidly prototyping and productionizing new technologies to shape the future of intelligent commerce.
- Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows, accelerating experimentation, model iteration, evaluation, and deployment.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Undergraduate in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
- Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and top-notch problem-solving skills;
- Profound knowledge in machine learning, statistics, and big data engineering.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Thorough understanding of data structures and algorithms, with excellent problem-solving ability;
- Deep Understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering.