Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety-CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Start (PhD)

TikTok
Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteInternshipFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: phdSkills: ["Communication","Teamwork","Coding","Problem-solving","Curiosity"]

Join the Trust & Safety algorithm team to build state-of-the-art content understanding models for computer vision, NLP, and multimodal machine learning. Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to define objectives, deploy ML models, design online workflows, and implement scalable serving pipelines. Work on unimodal/multimodal classifiers plus active learning, reinforcement learning, and large language model approaches to better recognize violating content and improve safety strategy.

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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety-CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Start (PhD)

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Job Summary

Join the Trust & Safety algorithm team to build state-of-the-art content understanding models for computer vision, NLP, and multimodal machine learning. Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to define objectives, deploy ML models, design online workflows, and implement scalable serving pipelines. Work on unimodal/multimodal classifiers plus active learning, reinforcement learning, and large language model approaches to better recognize violating content and improve safety strategy.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Internship
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Graduate level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate with product teams to define business objectives and improve trust and safety strategy.
  • •Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy ML models, design online model workflows, and implement serving pipelines at scale.
  • •Partner with the data science team to understand key challenges and propose data-driven strategies.
  • •Develop unimodal and multimodal content understanding techniques for recognizing violating content.
  • •Optimize distributed model training frameworks continuously.

Key Requirements

  • •Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or a similar quantitative field.
  • •Experience (hands-on or academic) in machine learning, large language models, recommendation systems, or related areas.
  • •Strong coding skills.
  • •Good communication and teamwork skills.
  • •Ability to commit to an onboarding date by end of 2026 and state availability and graduation date in the resume.
Experience:Computer visionNLPMultimodal MLLarge language modelsRecommendation systemsTrust and safety
Education:PhD / Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operation Research, Applied Mathematics (or similar quantitative fields)
Skills:CommunicationTeamworkCodingProblem-solvingCuriosity
Tech Stack:Machine learningLarge language modelsMultimodalComputer visionNLPRecommendation systemsActive learningReinforcement learning

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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