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Applied Scientist Intern - Business Integrity - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing 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, focused on accurate decisions, interpretable reasoning, and remediation.
What you'll do
- Develop end-to-end moderation capabilities intended to exceed human benchmarks.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Modeling experience in at least one area: 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, single-modal LLM
AI focus
Develop machine-learning-based content moderation that handles complex and adversarial content, with accurate decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation.
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