Generative AI Researcher Intern (Intelligent Creation-Vision and Graphics) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California, US Until 10/3/2026 0+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted August 4, 2026 Last posted August 4, 2026
Job description

Description

Our team's mission is to empower content interaction and creation using CV related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like video understanding, multimodal understanding, image and video synthesis, 3D vision and intelligent editing. We are looking for Research Interns in the area of computer vision and machine learning at all levels at TikTok.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.
Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date).

Responsibilities
This internship provides students the opportunity to join one of our engineering teams where you will have the opportunity to:
- Build new features that touch hundreds of millions of people around the world
- Solve unique, large-scale, highly complex technical problems
- Build the next-generation monetization platform to help millions of customers grow their businesses
- Work with your mentor to deliver product features and make engineering improvements
- Build world-class web applications that combine usability, accessibility, elegance, performance, and maintainability
- Conduct cutting-edge research and development in computer vision, machine learning and other related fields
- Work with Research Scientists to deliver advanced technologies to TikTok products

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during in 2027
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
- Strong track record of research in one or more areas of computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning, preferring candidates with publications in some conference such as SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR.
- Highly competent in algorithms and programming.
- Work and collaborate well with team members.
- Ability to work independently.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications.
- High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities.

About this role

Summary

Research internship involving computer vision, machine learning, and graphics at TikTok.

Job title

Generative AI Researcher Intern (Intelligent Creation-Vision and Graphics) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Experience level

PhD

Minimum experience

0+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Must be in or near San Jose; remote not specified.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

algorithmsprogramming

Preferred skills

software engineeringcreativityproblem solving

Specializations

computer visionmachine learningcomputer graphicsvideo understanding
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

On-site City