TikTok
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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