TikTok
Research Scientist – TikTok Recommendation(NextGen LLM) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related field; completing or recently completed.
About the job
Conduct research and develop multimodal large models and recommendation agents to improve TikTok recommendation performance, content understanding, and distribution.
What you'll do
- Explore large-model methods for recommendation and reasoning over long behavioral sequences.
- Develop multimodal models that align video, image-text content, and user intent.
- Research recommendation agents with self-reflection, tool use, and long-horizon planning.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related field.
- Experience in at least one of computer vision, natural language processing, or machine learning.
- Knowledge and experience with at least one major deep learning framework.
- Familiarity with deep neural network architectures such as transformers, SSMs, CNNs, RNNs, or LSTMs.
Nice to have
- Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Publications in top-tier venues such as SIGGRAPH, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, or ICLR.
Tools
PyTorch, Tensorflow, MXNet, Caffe/Caffe2, transformer, SSM, CNN, RNN/LSTM
AI focus
Generative AI research involving multimodal pretraining, multimodal large language models, recommendation large models, and agentic recommendation.
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