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PhD ML Engineer Intern: Search & Ranking Systems

TikTok

TikTok is offering a 12-week PhD internship in the Search team in California. Interns will contribute to search systems spanning retrieval, ranking, and ML signals, with mentorship and hands-on implementation.

Ideal candidates are pursuing a PhD in a technical field and have strong coding and data-structure fundamentals. Interns will work with engineers, data scientists, and product teams, gaining experience on large-scale data, experiments, and production-ready code.

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Vacancy posted 5 hours ago
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