TikTok
Applied Scientist - Business Integrity - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Build an automated content moderation system for TikTok monetization that makes accurate decisions, explains its reasoning, and supports remediation.
What you'll do
- Develop end-to-end moderation capabilities for accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation.
- Help build a scalable content-understanding and moderation system for complex and adversarial content.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Modeling experience in at least one of Ads, Search engine, Recommender System, NLP/CV, multimodal, or agent technologies.
- Solid foundation in LLM algorithms, including practical experience with single-modal LLM application and deployment.
- Strong publication record in top conferences, such as ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV.
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Apply machine learning and LLMs to automated content moderation, including decisions, interpretable reasoning, remediation, and handling adversarial or complex content.
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