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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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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)