TikTok
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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