Research Scientist - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM, Trust and Safety - 2025 Start

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible. Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo Never. Courage Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve. Join us.

About Algo Team

The algorithm team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art computer vision, NLP and multimodality models and algorithms to protect our platform and users from the content and behaviors that violate community guidelines and related local regulations. With the continuous efforts from our team, TikTok is able to provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly self-motivated research engineer to join our algo team. In our team, you will have the opportunity to participate in the development of the cutting-edge content understanding model to help improve the recognition ability of violated content in TikTok, and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously. The ideal candidate should be experienced in building a computer vision model or multimodality model and have a very strong coding ability in Pytorch/Tensorflow

Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

Qualifications

1. Final year or recent graduate with a background in computer science or a related technical discipline.

2. At least 3 years of experience in at least one of the following areas: computer vision, multimodality, LLM

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

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

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