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Research Scientist Graduate - (Trust and Safety, CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Start(PhD)

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

Experience
Related research experience in at least one of computer vision, multimodality, or LLM; no number of years specified.
Education
Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Development, or a related technical discipline.

About the job

Develop computer vision and multimodal models to detect policy-violating content on TikTok, explore LLM applications, and optimize large-model training frameworks.

What you'll do

  • Develop computer vision or multimodal models to recognize violating content.
  • Explore large models and LLM applications such as pre-training, zero-shot/few-shot learning, and hard case mining.
  • Continuously optimize the training framework for large models.

What they ask for

  • Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Development, or a related technical discipline.
  • Research experience in at least one of computer vision, multimodality, or LLM.
  • 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

PyTorch, TensorFlow, CLIP, COCA, ALBEF, BLIP, Flamingo, ViT-G

AI focus

Develop content-understanding computer vision and multimodal models for detecting violating content; explore multimodal and computer vision large models and LLM applications, and optimize large-model training.

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