(General Hire) Research Scientist Graduate(TikTok Recommendation) - 2026 Start (PhD)

What you'll do

• Research and develop methods in computer vision, NLP, multimodality, LLMs, and generative modeling.
• Track state-of-the-art research and adapt relevant ideas for production.
• Develop models across their lifecycle, including training, deployment, and maintenance.

What they ask for

• Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related field.
• Experience in at least one of computer vision, natural language processing, or machine learning.
• Knowledge and experience with at least one major deep learning framework.
• Familiarity with deep neural network architectures such as transformers, SSMs, CNNs, RNNs, or LSTMs.

Nice to have

• Publications at major AI venues such as SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, or ICLR.

Tools

PyTorch, Tensorflow, MXNet, Caffe/Caffe2, transformer, SSM, CNN, RNN/LSTM

AI focus

Research and develop foundational and generative AI models, including multimodal pretraining, multimodal large language models, and image and video generation, with applications in content understanding and recommendation.