Content Understanding LLM Algorithm Engineer Intern - Global E-Commerce - 2027 Start

TikTok is hiring a Content Understanding LLM Algorithm Engineer Intern - Global E-Commerce - 2027 Start in Singapore. When: Summer 2027. Posted July 26, 2026. Checked against the employer's posting on November 12, 2026.

Responsibilities About the Team Through algorithm optimization and collaboration with business teams, the team conducts comprehensive quality and ecosystem governance for e-commerce products.

This involves combating risks, violations, and low-quality issues, as well as constructing and optimizing the e-commerce ecosystem. The team aims to maximize platform governance effectiveness while improving operational efficiency and reducing costs.

Additionally, the team is dedicated to advancing cutting-edge AI technologies to drive business transformation and development through technical innovation, covering diverse fields including but not limited to NLP, CV, multimodal models, large models, graph algorithms, and sequence algorithms.

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 1. Large language Model Algorithm Development: Build domain-specific large language models (LLM/MLLM) for e-commerce, integrating domain knowledge to rapidly apply models to business scenarios.

2. E-commerce Governance Optimization: Understand e-commerce governance scenarios deeply to improve merchant/product/video/live-stream/IPR governance through algorithm optimization.

Develop state-of-the-art intelligent review systems capable of “knowing why to reject” decisions. 3. Model Enhancement: Handle tasks like data construction, foundational model enhancement, instruction fine-tuning, chain-of-thought (CoT) , and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) to achieve optimal model performance in the e-commerce domain.

4. Problem Solving for Governance Applications: Address challenges such as long text/sequence modeling, few-shot learning, content moderation, violation detection, and policy recommendation using large models and multimodal approaches.

5. Model Development and Optimization: Research and optimize e-commerce-specific NLP and multimodal large models to improve multilingual, multi-task, and multi-modal algorithm performance across various e-commerce scenarios.

Qualifications Minimum Qualifications 1. Currently Pursuing a Undergraduate or Master's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

2. Possess solid programming skills, a strong foundation in data structures and algorithms, and proficiency in using various algorithmic and engineering frameworks.

3. Strong foundation in machine learning, with in-depth understanding and research experience in deep learning, reinforcement learning, NLP, or multimodal learning.

4. Demonstrate good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with the team to explore new technologies and drive technical innovation.

Preferred Qualifications 1. Prior publications in international conferences or journals (including but not limited to ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR) are preferred.

2. Strong practical abilities, with achievements in competitions like Kaggle, GLUE, Super GLUE, CLUE, etc. Job Information About TikTok TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video.

At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.