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

TikTok
San Jose
Full timeFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Education: phdSkills: ["Research","Collaboration","Technical excellence","Ability to handle adversarial scenarios","Interpretability focus"]

Build an end-to-end intelligent moderation system for TikTok monetization, enabling accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation. Work on scalable machine-learning models and next-generation content understanding, addressing evolving moderation rules, long-form and long-sequence content, multilingual settings, limited samples, and adversarial AIGC content. Join the Business Integrity team and collaborate with global partners to surpass human moderation benchmarks.

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Job Summary

Build an end-to-end intelligent moderation system for TikTok monetization, enabling accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation. Work on scalable machine-learning models and next-generation content understanding, addressing evolving moderation rules, long-form and long-sequence content, multilingual settings, limited samples, and adversarial AIGC content. Join the Business Integrity team and collaborate with global partners to surpass human moderation benchmarks.
Location: San Jose
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Graduate level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build a leading moderation system with end-to-end capabilities for accurate rejection decisions.
  • •Develop interpretable reasoning and intelligent remediation to support automated moderation.
  • •Create highly scalable machine learning models for content understanding and moderation.
  • •Address challenges such as evolving moderation rules, long-form text, long temporal sequences, multilingual content, limited samples, and adversarial AIGC.
  • •Collaborate across disciplines with global teams to pursue performance that surpasses human benchmarks.

Key Requirements

  • •Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • •Modeling experience in one or more of: Ads, search engine, recommender systems, NLP/CV, multimodal, or agent technologies.
  • •Solid foundation in LLM-related algorithms, including practical experience with single-modal LLM application and deployment.
  • •Strong publications record in top conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV.
  • •State your availability and graduation date in your resume and commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2027.
Education:PhD / Doctorate in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Skills:ResearchCollaborationTechnical excellenceAbility to handle adversarial scenariosInterpretability focus
Tech Stack:LLMsNLPCVMultimodalAgent technologiesAIGC

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
WebsiteLinkedIn