TikTok
Research Engineer Graduate (Monetization Technology - Business Integrity) - 2027 Start
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Automation, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical discipline; exceptional Bachelor's candidates with strong research output may also be considered.
About the job
Build a scalable, automated content moderation system for TikTok monetization, providing accurate decisions, interpretable reasoning, and remediation.
What you'll do
- Develop a moderation system that supports end-to-end automated decisions and remediation.
- Build machine learning models for content understanding and moderation, including challenging or adversarial content.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a Master's degree in a listed or related technical discipline; exceptional Bachelor's candidates with strong research output may also be considered.
- Hands-on experience implementing, training, or deploying models in Ads, Search, Recommender Systems, NLP, CV, Multimodal, or Agent technologies.
- Familiarity with large language model fundamentals and practical experience in at least one stage, such as training, prompting, inference, or deployment.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals; proficient in Python and at least one deep learning framework, such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed training, high-throughput inference, production deployment, serving optimization, or large-scale data pipelines.
- Experience with agentic systems, RAG, or multimodal applications; industry-stack familiarity, open-source contributions, competition results, or patents.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, DeepSpeed, Megatron, FSDP, vLLM, SGLang
AI focus
Machine learning and large-language-model work for content moderation, including automated rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, remediation, and handling adversarial or AIGC-generated content.
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