Applied Scientist - Business Integrity - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California, US Until 8/23/2026 0+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted April 17, 2026 Last posted April 17, 2026
Job description

Description

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2027. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2027. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Team Introduction: Our Business Integrity team has a strong user focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We aim to meet our users’ needs with reliable and high-performing platforms and services. We are looking for strong machine learning engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable machine learning models, and partner across disciplines with global teams, in pursuit of excellence. Given the fast growth of TikTok in the world, we are working on building a next-generation content understanding system for TikTok monetization. We are seeking Research Engineers who are experienced in machine learning, which can help us create an ecosystem that rewards high-quality user experience and advertiser value.

Topic Content: With the explosive growth of digital content, intelligent moderation has become a core capability for internet platforms. However, as moderation scenarios grow increasingly complex and adversarial tactics continue to evolve, traditional approaches are facing unprecedented challenges. The current landscape is characterized by multiple technical difficulties, including the dynamic nature of moderation rules, content complexity, sample scarcity, escalating adversarial behaviors, and a lack of interpretability. In particular, existing open-source large models often do not perform as effective as we expect in scenarios involving evolving moderation rules, long-form text, long temporal sequences, multilanguages, limited sample data, and adversarial content generated by AIGC.

Responsibilities:
In this role, you will build a leading moderation system that enables end-to-end capabilities for accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation, achieving fully automated moderation with performance surpassing human benchmarks.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
1. Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
2. Modeling experience in one or more of the areas: Ads, Search engine, Recommender System, NLP/CV, multimodal, agent technologies.
3. Have a solid foundation in algorithms related to LLMs, including but not limited to comprehensive learning and
practical experience in areas such as single-modal LLM application and deployment.
4. Strong publications record in top conferences (e.g., ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, N
CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV)

About this role

Summary

Build scalable moderation systems using machine learning and NLP for content integrity.

Job title

Applied Scientist - Business Integrity - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

Experience level

recent PhD completion

Minimum experience

0+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

San Jose, CA; on-site required

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PhD in computer science or relatedmodeling in ads, search, recommender systems, NLP/CVLLM algorithmspublications in top AI/ML conferences

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

machine learningNLPcontent moderationlarge language modelsadversarial content
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

On-site City