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Research Scientist Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety) - 2027 Start (PhD)

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

Education
PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline; completing or recently completed.

About the job

Develop computer vision and multimodal models to detect content that violates TikTok’s guidelines, explore LLM applications, and optimize large-model training frameworks.

What you'll do

  • Develop computer vision or multimodal models to recognize violating content.
  • Explore multimodal and computer vision large models, and apply LLMs to business scenarios.
  • Continuously optimize the training framework for large models.

What they ask for

  • Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Research experience in at least one of computer vision, multimodality, or LLMs.
  • Proficiency with at least one deep learning framework, such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, logical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

  • Papers published in accredited academic conferences or journals, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, or IJCV.

Tools

CLIP, COCA, ALBEF, BLIP, Flamingo, ViT-G, ViT-22B, EVA-enormous

AI focus

Develop computer vision and multimodal models for recognizing violating content; explore large models and LLM applications, including pre-training, zero-shot/few-shot learning, and hard case mining.

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