Data Scientist Intern (Traffic Infrastructure Global Engineering) - 2025 Summer/Fall (BS/MS)

Responsibilities

The Traffic Infrastructure Global Engineering team operates a vast global network of Points of Presence (POPs) that power edge services, including traffic acceleration, CDN caching, and gaming infrastructure. The Traffic Infrastructure Product team plays a crucial role in ensuring a seamless customer experience, from onboarding to scaling operations efficiently. We leverage data-driven insights to optimize our infrastructure and continuously improve service for our growing customer base.

As a Data Scientist Intern, you’ll work on real-world projects that drive infrastructure growth, enhance operational efficiency, and improve customer experiences. This is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in data science while collaborating with top engineers and product managers in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities：
- Analyze complex datasets to uncover actionable insights that drive infrastructure optimization and customer support.
- Develop data-driven solutions to tackle key challenges, such as customer growth forecasting and infrastructure efficiency.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including engineers and product managers—to address business challenges through data.
- Build and improve data pipelines, dashboards, and reports to enhance accessibility and streamline decision-making.
- Conduct in-depth analysis and provide recommendations that align with strategic business goals.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Pursuing a BS/MS in Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in business analytics, trend analysis, and deriving actionable insights.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, or R, with expertise in at least one of the following:
- Advanced measurement (A/B testing, causal inference, or complex trade-off systems)
- Predictive modeling
- Optimization

Preferred Qualifications：
- Self-motivated and impact-driven, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job Information

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.​

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.​

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.​

Diversity & Inclusion​

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.​

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request​

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $33.25- $48.25. ​

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).​

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

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:​

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:​

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;​

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and​

3. Exercising sound judgment.​