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We embrace a culture of self-direction, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.\nThe Data Infrastructure team owns the data layer: how billions of videos and articles are ingested and indexed, how features are computed and served, how petabytes of user actions and features become training data, and how long sequences are modeled. Every retrieval and ranking model in TikTok Search runs on data our systems produce.\nWe are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. 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