TikTok
(General Hire) Research Scientist Graduate(TikTok Recommendation) - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- PhD in computer science or a related discipline; candidates may be completing or have recently completed the degree.
About the job
Conduct research and develop generative AI and content-understanding models for TikTok Recommendation, bringing them from training through deployment and maintenance into business use.
What you'll do
- Research and develop methods in computer vision, NLP, multimodality, LLMs, and generative modeling.
- Track state-of-the-art research and translate ideas into production.
- Manage the model lifecycle, including training, deployment, and maintenance for business scenarios.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in computer science or a related discipline.
- 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
- Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- 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 multimodal foundational models, including multimodal pretraining, multimodal LLMs, image and video generation, and content understanding; translate research into production and recommendation business gains.
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