Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Growth-Innovative Growth) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncBackend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Growth-Innovative Growth) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CATypical projects include Search Engine Optimization for organic acquisition, AIGC-powered content generation and quality evaluation, AI / Agentic workflow automation, Auto Research systems for growth opportunity discovery, and backend platforms that support experimentation and large-scale production rollout. Our team focuses on driving user growth through organic traffic channels, content optimization, AIGC technologies, and scalable backend systems across TikTok surfaces such as Web, Lite, and other emerging platforms.
Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok - Product Infrastructure) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncBackend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok - Product Infrastructure) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAInterns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals. Minimum Qualifications: Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Master degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Software Engineer Intern (TikTok - Effects Performance) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncSoftware Engineer Intern (TikTok - Effects Performance) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAPartnering closely with rendering, algorithm, and camera pipeline teams, you ll help profile and optimize frame rate, first-frame latency, memory footprint, and power consumption, and help build the tooling that makes this work scale. Assist in the design and implementation of automated performance analysis pipelines, such as automatic trace capture, agent-assisted bottleneck analysis, and regression detection, to assess effect performance at various stages.
Product Manager Intern (Content and Services) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncProduct Manager Intern (Content and Services) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAAs a team member, you will leverage qualitative/quantitative research to collect user feedback, develop deep understanding and empathy for our clients, and collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and marketing teams to meet business needs. Understand the team's business and core products, improve data monitoring required for business operations, and update weekly reports and other common data indicators.
Product Manager Intern (Content and Service Ads) - 2027 Summer (MBA) TikTok IncProduct Manager Intern (Content and Service Ads) - 2027 Summer (MBA)San Jose, CAAs TikTok has become one of the world s leading social media platforms, TikTok Search Ads is committed to making every search more valuable by delivering user content that matches their needs, maximizing the effectiveness of client advertising campaigns, and thus improving TikTok s monetization efficiency. As a team member, you will leverage qualitative/quantitative research to collect user feedback, develop deep understanding and empathy for our clients, and collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and marketing teams to meet business needs.
Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Agentic Creation-Effect Platform) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncSoftware Engineer Intern (TikTok-Agentic Creation-Effect Platform) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAAbout the Team Our team, Agentic Creation - TikTok Effect Platform (TTEP) nurtures TikTok s global ceration ecosystem by covering TikTok creation businesses across the creation tools, website and TikTok app. Participate in the team s core agentic business, deliver high impactful AI agents on trend discovery, personalization signal and creator to support both product and operation requirements for better viral creation supplies.
Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok- PGC-Digital Content Center) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncBackend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok- PGC-Digital Content Center) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAContribute to the design and implementation of event-driven architecture, building high-availability event flow pipelines based on EventBus/MQ that ensure reliable delivery and eventual consistency across cross-service business workflows. Participate in the architecture design and development of core backend services for the copyright protection platform, writing high-quality Go code across modules including complaint intake, audit scheduling, enforcement execution, and appeal management.
Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Search) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncBackend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Search) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAIn our team, you ll have the opportunity to take part in developing the key features on TikTok Search, understand how TikTok Search could be evolved to be a multi-billion-user product and first-handed experience how user request varies on this giant from time to time. Our team is responsible for providing TikTok search users with first-class search experience by building a strong and robust infrastructure and platform to support product fast iteration and key feature development.
Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Agentic Creation-AIGC) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncSoftware Engineer Intern (TikTok-Agentic Creation-AIGC) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAUsing inference stage techniques such as RAG, CoT, Prompt Engineering to improve TikTok s AI Effect Generation model output Minimum Qualifications: Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/ Master s in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Experience or interest in AR/VR projects, web technologies (React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js), cross-platform development (macOS, Windows, iOS, Android), or graphics APIs (OpenGL, WebGL, DirectX, Metal, Vulkan).
Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Privacy and Security) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncBackend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Privacy and Security) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CATikTok Privacy & Security Product team is responsible for building compliant and user-friendly privacy solutions for TikTok, with the goal of building trust among TikTok users, regulators, and the public. Interns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals.
Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Social-Friending) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncBackend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Social-Friending) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAInterns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals. Minimum Qualifications: Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Master degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Product Solutions and Operations Intern (Content and Services) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncProduct Solutions and Operations Intern (Content and Services) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAThe Content & Services Product Solutions & Operations (PSO) team focuses on non-commerce performance products-like lead generation and app advertising across various industry verticals. You'll work closely with Product Marketing Managers (PMMs) and cross-functional partners to support go-to-market strategy, performance insights, client messaging, and sales enablement.
Product Manager Intern (Ads Interface and Platform) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncProduct Manager Intern (Ads Interface and Platform) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAHelp manage the product lifecycle, collaborating with global cross-functional teams to ensure smooth execution of all phases-including product design, development, go-to-market (GTM), and requirements gathering-to improve system efficiency and customer experience. Develop an understanding of advertiser optimization habits and advertising delivery mechanisms; analyze key factors that impact campaign performance; identify opportunities to improve budget efficiency and campaign effectiveness through data analysis and user research.
(General Hire) Software Engineer Intern (Trust and Safety-Engineering) - 2027 Summer TikTok Inc(General Hire) Software Engineer Intern (Trust and Safety-Engineering) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAOur team is responsible for achieving goals by building content moderation process systems, rule engines, strategy systems, feature engines, human moderation platforms, risk insight systems, and all kinds of supportive platforms across TnS organization. Interns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals.
Product Solutions and Operations Intern (Commerce Ads) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncProduct Solutions and Operations Intern (Commerce Ads) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CATikTok Shop is an innovative new shopping feature that enables merchants, brands, and creators to showcase and sell products directly on TikTok through in-feed videos, LIVEs, the product showcase tab, and the shopping center (2nd tab of the TikTok app). Minimum Qualifications: Currently pursuing a Bachelor s in computer science or a related technical discipline Strong logical thinking and data analysis skills, with the ability to break down, analyze, and solve complex problems.
Software Engineer Intern (TikTok- Developer Platform) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncSoftware Engineer Intern (TikTok- Developer Platform) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAWe provide APIs, SDKs, developer tools, internal platforms, and integration workflows that support authentication, data exchange, content sharing, and partner onboarding. About the Team The Developer Platform team helps external developers and partners build secure, scalable, and high-quality integrations across our ecosystem.
Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Social-Foundation) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncBackend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Social-Foundation) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CADevelop distributed graph database engines capable of handling billions of vertices and trillions of edges, enabling millisecond-level multi-hop queries and real-time graph reasoning. We design and build the core graph infrastructure that powers TikTok s social ecosystem - processing trillions of edges and billions of vertices to deliver real-time relationship insights to billions of users worldwide.
AI Engineer Intern (TikTok-Client Arch)- 2027 Summer TikTok IncAI Engineer Intern (TikTok-Client Arch)- 2027 SummerSan Jose, CASolid proficiency in at least one mainstream language (e.g., TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, C/C++); End-to-end delivery mindset: hands-on practice in at least two of client/application, server, and data layers, with basic understanding of the rest. Our mission is to embrace AI, build the most advanced business architecture infrastructure, establish public trust and compliance, focus on resource management and cost optimization, user experience and stability, improve engineering quality and R&D efficiency.
Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Global Live-Foundation) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncBackend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok-Global Live-Foundation) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAInterns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals. It takes on the responsibility of building the backend system, collaborating with data scientists, ecosystem governance managers, the operations team, and the Trust & Safety Algorithm team.
Software Engineer Intern (TikTok - Shoot Experience Optimization) - 2027 Summer TikTok IncSoftware Engineer Intern (TikTok - Shoot Experience Optimization) - 2027 SummerSan Jose, CAAssist in the design and implementation of automated performance monitoring pipelines, such as automatic Perfetto trace capture, agent-assisted bottleneck analysis, and regression detection, to assess camera experience and performance at various stages. Using client-side optimization techniques such as cold start optimization, jank and memory analysis, and thread scheduling to improve camera responsiveness and stability across a massive range of mobile devices Minimum Qualifications.