Data Engineering Project Intern (Ads Targeting) - 2027 Start

Data Engineering Project Intern (Ads Targeting) - 2027 Start at TikTok in San Jose, CA.

Responsibilities

Ads Core team is chartered to build key monetization components across various ad delivery stages:

1. We build up ranking, bidding, budget, format, diagnosis and other frameworks that serve as a mid platform to enable other ad teams to iterate their products in parallel.
2. We implement outstanding traffic strategies to maximize revenue under the constraint of user experience and achieve complete exploration of advertiser's audience.
3. Our model driven automation solutions optimize ad delivery performance from end to end.

• As a Project Intern, you will contribute to impactful short-term projects and gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, professional environment. This internship offers the opportunity to develop practical skills, apply your knowledge to real-world challenges, and explore your career interests.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early.

1. Help build foundational targeting data and platform capabilities, including:
2. Gender, age buckets, geo targeting (country/region/city/POI/lat-long), device/OS, language, etc.
3. Assist in user profile/targeting tag pipelines: ingestion, cleaning, definition alignment, tag generation and refresh.
4. Develop batch and streaming jobs (depending on stack): offline (Hive/Spark), real-time (Flink/Kafka).
5. Improve data quality: consistency checks, latency monitoring, anomaly alerting, backfill and remediation.
6. Provide stable data services to ads delivery/strategy systems: audience packages, tag query, targeting rule parsing (with mentorship).

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Undergraduate/ Master's in CS/Data Engineering/IS or or a related discipline.
• Strong SQL and solid data modeling fundamentals.
• Proficient in at least one language: Java/Scala/Python.
• Familiar with parts of big data ecosystem (Hive/Spark/Flink/Kafka/Airflow) is a plus.
• Detail-oriented; comfortable working on data definitions and quality governance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with user profiles, tagging systems, DMP/CDP, ads or recommender data pipelines.
• Exposure to privacy, anonymization, access control (as needed).

About the Company

The Global Business Solutions (GBS) team is responsible for the revenue growth of the TikTok business, and our teams include Sales, Marketing, Ops, Account Managers, Agency and partnerships, as well as Marketing Science.

At TikTok, our Global Business Solutions (GBS) team plays a key role in generating revenue by promoting our advertising solutions, onboarding new clients, driving ad campaigns, and more. As the TikTok community grows at an unprecedented speed around the world, our GBS team leads groundbreaking projects that are changing the landscape of the advertising industry in real time.

We're seeking an analytically driven, and detail-oriented Client Solutions Manager (CSM) Intern to join our Ecommerce Team. As a CSM, you will partner closely with Client Partners and Client Solutions Managers to drive revenue by identifying opportunities, leveraging data insights, and delivering consultative solutions for advertisers.

This role centers on client education, relationship growth, data analysis, and campaign success. You will provide strategic recommendations to both clients and internal teams, ensuring campaigns achieve business objectives while optimizing long-term partnerships. Success in this role requires strong data analytics skills, adaptability in a fast-paced environment, and a test-and-learn mindset to uncover the best solutions.