Generative AI Privacy Research Scientist Graduate (Privacy Innovation Lab) -...

TikTok Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major technology platform is looking for a PhD candidate or recent graduate to join their Privacy Innovation Lab in Singapore. The role involves designing research on GenAI innovation and collaborating with product and engineering teams on privacy features. Candidates should have research experience in GenAI and a strong publication record. This opportunity offers a dynamic environment where innovation meets privacy commitments.

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience.
• Research contributions to GenAI or open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute research on industry challenges of GenAI.
• Collaborate with product teams on privacy requirements.
• Work with engineering to prototype privacy-related features.
• Present research findings through reports and presentations.
• Represent PI Lab in technical and academic communities.

Skills

Research experience in GenAI

Strong publication record

Technical consulting on privacy features

Verbal presentation skills

Education

Final year Ph. D or recent Ph. D graduates in Computer Science

Job description

Responsibilities

At TikTok, we treat privacy as our top priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance, but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users’ privacy choices! Privacy Innovation (PI) Lab is established to explore the next frontier of privacy technology and theory in the digitalized world.

We provide key insights and technical solutions on privacy-related innovation for all TikTok’s products. Furthermore, we also collaborate with worldwide technical and academic communities to build an open ecosystem to promote a privacy-friendly digital experience. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026.

As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026.

Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

• Design and execute research on the critical industrial challenges of GenAI innovation.
• Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from the TikTok product family and provide technical consulting on privacy-related features.
• Work with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from our research to product prototyping.
• Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations.
• Represent PI Lab and our work in the external technical and academic community.

Minimum Qualifications：

• Final year Ph. D or recent Ph. D graduates in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Research experience in GenAI with a strong publication record or contributions to open-source projects.

Preferred Qualifications：

• 2 years of research or production experience in the following areas:
• Pretraining, fine-tuning, and post-training
• Responsible AI, privacy-preserving LLMs, and LLM alignment
• Reinforcement learning for tuning language models
• Efficient training and inference techniques

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