Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Brand Ads) - 2026 Fall (BS/MS) San Jose Undergraduate/Master [...]

Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Brand Ads) - 2026 Fall (BS/MS)

Location: San Jose

Employment Type: Intern

Job Code: A

Responsibilities

The Brand Ads Team builds technologies that unlock business growth potential. The team owns several ad products: reservation ads, auction ads, and innovative content ads that enable advertisers and users to foster greater brand awareness to attain their business goals. We work on the end-to-end ads delivery tech stack, including ads bidding, ranking, and forecasting.

• Create innovative monetization products that drive engagement and revenue.
• Participate in the development of a large‑scale Ads system.
• Participate in the development and iteration of Ads algorithms using machine learning.
• Work on NLP and CV related technology for content understanding and taxonomy.
• Contribute to the success of a rapidly growing and evolving organization with speed and quality.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors.
• Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in one or more general‑purpose programming languages including but not limited to Go, C/C++, Python.
• Ability to think critically and to formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way.
• Relevant professional experience with machine learning, data mining, data analysis, distribution systems.
• Must be able to commit to a 12‑week onsite work starting within 2026.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding in one of the following domains: brand ads, content ads, auction, bidding, ranking, and ads forecasting.
• Experience with one or more of: machine learning, deep learning, NLP, ranking systems, recommendation systems, backend, large‑scale systems, data science, full‑stack.
• Good product sense and experience designing and implementing product features.

Job Information

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $45- $45.

Benefits

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
• Exercising sound judgment.