Research Engineer Graduate (Monetization Technology - Business Integrity) - 2027 Start

TikTok
San Jose
Full timeFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Education: mastersSkills: ["Strong problem-solving","Collaborative mindset","Genuine interest"]

Build TikTok’s next-generation content understanding system for monetization, focusing on intelligent moderation. You’ll develop scalable machine learning models for end-to-end accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation, aiming for fully automated moderation that can surpass human benchmarks. Work with global teams to tackle evolving, adversarial moderation rules and challenging data regimes spanning long-form text, long temporal sequences, and multiple languages.

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Job Summary

Build TikTok’s next-generation content understanding system for monetization, focusing on intelligent moderation. You’ll develop scalable machine learning models for end-to-end accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation, aiming for fully automated moderation that can surpass human benchmarks. Work with global teams to tackle evolving, adversarial moderation rules and challenging data regimes spanning long-form text, long temporal sequences, and multiple languages.
Location: San Jose
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Graduate level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build a leading moderation system for end-to-end accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation.
  • •Develop fully automated moderation solutions targeting performance that surpasses human benchmarks.
  • •Create scalable machine learning models for TikTok monetization and business integrity use cases.
  • •Collaborate across disciplines and global teams to advance a content understanding system for monetization.
  • •Address complex moderation scenarios involving dynamic rules, adversarial tactics, and challenging data conditions.

Key Requirements

  • •Currently completing or recently completed a Master’s degree in a technical discipline (or expecting to graduate within 12 months); exceptional Bachelor’s candidates with strong research output may be considered.
  • •Hands-on experience implementing, training, or deploying ML models in areas such as Ads, Search, Recommender Systems, NLP, CV, Multimodal, or Agent technologies.
  • •Practical familiarity with large language model fundamentals (pre-training, fine-tuning, prompting, inference, and deployment) across at least one stage.
  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals including clean, testable code, version control, and end-to-end debugging of complex systems.
  • •Proficiency in Python and at least one deep learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow; strong problem-solving and collaboration.
Education:Master's
Skills:Strong problem-solvingCollaborative mindsetGenuine interest
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchTensorFlowDeepSpeedMegatronFSDPVLLMSGLangTensorRT-LLMLLMNLPCVMultimodalRAGAgentic systems

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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