Research Scientist Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety) - 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

The algorithm team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art computer vision, NLP and multimodality models and algorithms to protect our platform and users from the content and behaviors that violate community guidelines and related regulations. With the continuous efforts from our team, TikTok is able to provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world.

In our team, you will have the opportunity to participate in the development of the cutting-edge content understanding model to help improve the recognition ability of violated content in TikTok, and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Responsibilities
- Develop computer vision model or multimodality model to recognize violation content in TikTok
- Explore cutting-edge multimodal or computer vision large models (CLIP, COCA, ALBEF, BLIP, Flamingo, ViT-G, ViT-22B, EVA-enormous, etc)
- Explore the application of LLM in our business scenarios, like pre-training, zero-shot/ few-shot learning, hard case mining, etc
- Continuously optimize the training framework to better adapt to the training of large models

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Related Research Experience at least one of the following areas: computer vision, multimodality, LLM
- Be proficient with at least one deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, logical thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications:
- Published papers in the accredited academic conferences or journals is a plus, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, IJCV, etc

About this role

Summary

Develop models to recognize content violations using computer vision, NLP, and multimodal approaches.

Job title

Research Scientist Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Experience level

recently completed PhD

Minimum experience

0+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

San Jose with remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

deep learning frameworkPyTorchTensorFlowanalytical skillsproblem-solving

Preferred skills

published papersCVPRICCVECCVNIPSICMLICLR

Specializations

computer visionmultimodalitynatural language processingdeep learning
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

Hybrid City