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Research Scientist Graduate (Monetization Technology - Business Integrity) - 2027 Start

San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Experience
For the degree: completed or expecting to graduate within 12 months. No years-of-experience requirement stated.
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 an end-to-end content moderation system for TikTok monetization, targeting accurate decisions, interpretable reasoning, and automated remediation.

What you'll do

  • Develop moderation capabilities intended to exceed human benchmarks.
  • Research and build machine learning approaches for complex, evolving, and adversarial content moderation.

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.
  • Research experience in Ads, Search, Recommender Systems, NLP, CV, Multimodal, or Agent technologies, demonstrated through publications, thesis work, internships, or research projects.
  • Understanding of LLM pre-training, post-training/alignment, and evaluation, including ability to read, reproduce, and critique recent research.
  • Ability to formulate research problems and design experiments; proficiency in Python and at least one of PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Nice to have

  • Publications at top-tier venues or equivalent evidence of research ability.
  • Experience with RLHF/post-training, reasoning, model architecture design, evaluation benchmarks, agentic systems, RAG, multimodal applications, or research shipped to production.

Tools

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, RLHF, RAG

AI focus

Research and develop LLM-based content moderation, including accurate decisions, interpretable reasoning, remediation, and handling adversarial AIGC content.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)