Research Scientist Intern (Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2027 Start (PhD)

TikTok
San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteInternshipFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: phdSkills: ["Analytical","Problem-solving","Logical thinking","Communication","Collaboration"]

Join TikTok’s Algorithm team to build and improve computer vision and multimodal models that help detect content violating community guidelines and related regulations. You’ll experiment with multimodal foundation model approaches, apply LLM methods to trust-and-safety scenarios (e.g., pre-training and few-shot learning), and continuously optimize large-model training frameworks to improve performance. This is a 2027 PhD internship with hands-on research and collaboration.

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Research Scientist Intern (Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2027 Start (PhD)

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Job Summary

Join TikTok’s Algorithm team to build and improve computer vision and multimodal models that help detect content violating community guidelines and related regulations. You’ll experiment with multimodal foundation model approaches, apply LLM methods to trust-and-safety scenarios (e.g., pre-training and few-shot learning), and continuously optimize large-model training frameworks to improve performance. This is a 2027 PhD internship with hands-on research and collaboration.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Internship
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Intern level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop computer vision or multimodality models to recognize violation content
  • •Explore cutting-edge multimodal or computer vision large models (e.g., CLIP, COCA, ALBEF, BLIP, Flamingo, ViT variants, EVA-enormous)
  • •Explore applications of LLMs in trust-and-safety business scenarios (e.g., pre-training, zero-shot/few-shot, hard case mining)
  • •Optimize the training framework to better adapt to training large models

Key Requirements

  • •PhD candidate in computer science or a related technical discipline
  • •Research experience in computer vision, multimodality, and/or LLM
  • •Proficiency with at least one deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
  • •Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • •Published papers in top AI conferences or journals (plus)
Education:PhD / Doctorate in computer science
Skills:AnalyticalProblem-solvingLogical thinkingCommunicationCollaboration
Tech Stack:Computer visionNLPMultimodalLLMPyTorchTensorFlowCLIPCOCAALBEFBLIPFlamingoViT-GViT-22BEVA-enormousViT

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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