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Research Scientist Intern (Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Education
PhD candidate in computer science or a related technical discipline

About the job

Develop and optimize computer vision, multimodal, and LLM approaches to detect content that violates TikTok’s guidelines and regulations.

What you'll do

  • Develop computer vision or multimodality models to recognize violating content.
  • Explore multimodal and computer vision large models and apply LLMs to business scenarios, including pre-training, zero-shot/few-shot learning, and hard case mining.
  • Optimize training frameworks for large-model training.

What they ask for

  • PhD candidate in computer science 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 top AI 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

Research and develop computer vision, multimodal, and LLM models for trust and safety, including violation detection, LLM business applications, and large-model training optimization.

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