Research Engineer Intern (Monetization Technology - Business Integrity) - 2027 Start (PhD)

TikTok
San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteInternshipFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Debugging","Machine learning interest"]

Build next-generation moderation and content understanding systems that improve automated rejection decisions with interpretable reasoning and intelligent remediation. Work on scalable machine learning models for evolving, adversarial moderation scenarios spanning long-form text, long temporal sequences, and multiple languages. Collaborate with global teams across disciplines, apply large language model methods, and deploy high-performing systems that outperform human benchmarks.

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TikTok
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Research Engineer Intern (Monetization Technology - Business Integrity) - 2027 Start (PhD)

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Job Summary

Build next-generation moderation and content understanding systems that improve automated rejection decisions with interpretable reasoning and intelligent remediation. Work on scalable machine learning models for evolving, adversarial moderation scenarios spanning long-form text, long temporal sequences, and multiple languages. Collaborate with global teams across disciplines, apply large language model methods, and deploy high-performing systems that outperform human benchmarks.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Internship
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Intern level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build an end-to-end moderation system for accurate rejection decisions.
  • •Develop interpretable reasoning to support automated moderation.
  • •Implement intelligent remediation for moderation outcomes.
  • •Enable fully automated moderation performance surpassing human benchmarks.
  • •Work with global teams to scale machine learning models for complex, adversarial scenarios.

Key Requirements

  • •Currently pursuing a PhD in a technical discipline, with completion or graduation within 12 months.
  • •Hands-on experience implementing, training, or deploying models for areas such as Ads, Search, Recommender Systems, NLP, CV, Multimodal, or Agent technologies.
  • •Practical familiarity with large language model stages (e.g., pre-training, fine-tuning, prompting, inference, deployment).
  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals (clean, testable code; version control; debugging end to end).
  • •Proficient in Python and at least one deep learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationDebuggingMachine learning interest
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchTensorFlowLarge Language ModelsDeepSpeedMegatronFSDPVLLMSGLangTensorRT-LLMRAGMultimodalAgent technologiesVersion controlData pipelines

Company Brief

TikTok
Short-form video platform that lets users create, share, and discover entertainment content through algorithmic recommendations. It also offers advertising and creator tools for brands, influencers, and businesses.
Industry: Digital Media
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2016
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