TikTok
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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