(General Hire) Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Performance Monetization) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California, US Until 10/4/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted August 5, 2026 Last posted August 5, 2026
Job description

Description

Global Monetization Product and Technology teams are building the next-generation monetization platforms to help millions of customers grow their businesses, utilizing our products like TikTok. Our team develops a wide variety of advertisements for numerous uses including feeds, live streaming, branding, measurement, targeting, search, vertical solutions, creative solutions, and business integrity.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.

Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date).

What is the General Hire?
If you're applying under the General HIre track for the GMPT-Performance Monetization organization, your resume will be reviewed by all the subteams, and we'll help identify one or more teams that are the best match for you.

Why General Hire?
This process gives you broader exposure and increases your chances of finding the right team fit!

Responsibilities:
- Participate in the development of a large-scale Ads system.
- Responsible for the development of state-of-the-art applied machine learning projects.
- Own key targeting components or strategies in the TikTok ads monetization ecosystem.
- Work with product and business teams on product vision.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience in and good theoretical grounding in machine learning concepts and techniques.
- Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Go, C/C++, Python.
- Experience in one or more of the following frameworks: Tensorflow/PyTorch/MXNet, etc
- Ability to think critically and to formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Ads system, recommendation, searching, ranking, etc.

About this role

Summary

Develop large-scale ads systems, machine learning projects, and optimize targeting strategies.

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Experience level

PhD intern

Industry

software

Location requirements

On-site in San Jose, California, USA

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

programming in Go, C/C++, Pythonmachine learning frameworks: Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNettheoretical grounding in machine learningdebugging and optimization

Preferred skills

ads systemrecommendationsearchingranking

Specializations

machine learningads systemrankingrecommendation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

On-site City