PhD Internship: ML & Graph Learning

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 20,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

TikTok invites PhD candidates to join an internship focused on using AI to detect risks and low-quality entities in our e-commerce platform. You will help model data for live streaming, products, merchants, and creators, building scalable ML systems and graph-based governance tools.

The program blends hands-on research with collaboration across teams, offering exposure to practical applications in a fast-growing tech company.

Qualifications

• Pursuing PhD in a technical field with strong research record.
• Strong coding skills and experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow).
• Familiar with ML/graph learning algorithms with depth/breadth.
• Experience in AI-Agent projects, multi-agent work, or LLM-based apps is a plus.
• Industry ML foundations and practical research experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Mine, identify, and predict risks and low-quality merchants/products/creators in e-commerce.
• Build data models to improve ecosystem and business operations.
• Develop data for entities like live streaming, products, merchants, and creators; build large-scale networks/sequence models.
• Develop graph storage/learning platforms to improve governance in e-commerce community.
• Research cutting-edge ML/graph/sequence learning technologies and apply in production.

Skills

PyTorch

TensorFlow

DGL

pyg

scikit-learn

Education

PhD candidate in CS/Software Dev

Tools

Hive

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

TikTok invites PhD candidates to join an internship focused on using AI to detect risks and low-quality entities in our e-commerce platform. You will help model data for live streaming, products, merchants, and creators, building scalable ML systems and graph-based governance tools.

The program blends hands-on research with collaboration across teams, offering exposure to practical applications in a fast-growing tech company.