TikTok
Multi-modal Machine Learning Engineer (all levels) - Trust and Safety
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- BS/MS degree in a listed or similar quantitative field; Ph.D. in LLM, VLM, or equivalent experience is preferred.
About the job
Build and deploy machine learning models and systems for content understanding, moderation, and Trust and Safety at TikTok scale.
What you'll do
- Lead and build content-understanding models for content moderation, including unimodal and multimodal classifiers, graph models, representation learning models, and LLMs.
- Partner with product and data science teams to define objectives, address safety challenges, and develop data-driven strategies.
- Work with engineering teams to deploy models and design online workflows and serving pipelines at scale.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Operation Research, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a similar quantitative field.
- Hands-on experience in one or more areas: machine learning (CV/NLP/Multimodal/Graph/LLM), statistical models, or applied mathematical methods.
- Strong coding skills, especially in Python and similar languages.
- Curiosity toward new technologies and entrepreneurship, and good communication and teamwork skills.
Nice to have
- Ph.D. in LLM, VLM, or equivalent experience; background in LLM, multimodal modeling, representation learning, or AI/ML conference publications.
- Understanding of content understanding and moderation business value; experience developing online ML systems, including ranking or retrieval.
Tools
Python, CV, NLP, Multimodal, Graph, LLM, VLM
AI focus
Develop content-understanding and moderation models, including multimodal methods and LLMs, and deploy them in online systems at scale.
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