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TikTok · 2 weeks ago

Research Scientist Intern- (Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Start(PhD)

United States

Internship

Remote

Intern

Start in 2026

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Research Scientist Intern to join their Trust and Safety algorithm team. The role involves developing advanced models and algorithms to recognize violation content and optimize distributed model training frameworks.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop computer vision model or multimodality model to recognize violation content in TikTok

Explore cutting-edge multimodal or computer vision large models (CLIP, COCA, ALBEF, BLIP, Flamingo, ViT-G, ViT-22B, EVA-enormous, etc)

Explore the application of LLM in our business scenarios, like pre-training, zero-shot/ few-shot learning, hard case mining, etc

Continuously optimize the training framework to better adapt to the training of large models

Qualification

Computer VisionMultimodalityLarge Language Models (LLM)Deep Learning FrameworksAnalytical SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsCommunication SkillsCollaboration Skills

Required

PhD candidate in computer science or a related technical discipline

Related Research Experience at least one of the following areas: computer vision, multimodality, LLM

Be proficient with at least one deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)

Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, logical thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills

Preferred

Published papers in the top AI conferences or journals is a plus, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, IJCV, etc

Benefits

Interns have day one access to health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)

Housing allowance

Company

TikTok

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TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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