Machine Learning Engineer (Content Understanding) Intern, (TikTok Live Foundation Sydney) - 2027 Start (PhD) (Rolling Intake)

Our team aims to help TikTok's SMB merchants and creators obtain more diverse customer acquisition and business operation methods through live streaming by building product capabilities and providing creator services, and to offer professional live streaming content for users.

We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us and empower content understanding in SMB business. We are working on cutting-edge content understanding topics and engaging with industry recognition and intention recognition for our creators, enhancing LIVE content diversity and creator monetization.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2027. PhD Internships at our Company aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.

PhD internships at Our Company provides students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

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

• Life-cycle model development, from model training, deployment, maintenance, and iteration.
• Convert ML models to scalable online services for online businesses.
• Understand product goals and improve content understanding strategy and model's performance.
• Collaborate with engineers from diverse technical backgrounds and cross-functional teams to integrate advanced modeling techniques into production.

• Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++
• Solid knowledge and experience with at least one major deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow)
• 2+ years experience in one or more of the areas: machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, NLP, Audio, content understanding or participating in large-scale online machine learning platforms are preferred
• Experience building scalable, highly available, distributed and mission-critical systems

• Able to work closely with diverse stakeholders and have good communication skills
• Self-driven, positive, cooperative and willing to keep learning at all times
• Authors with publications in top-tier venues such as SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR

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Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.​

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

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