Next-Gen LLM Research Scientist (Multimodal AI)

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking highly qualified graduate-level researchers to join the genAI and content understanding team in Los Angeles County. Candidates will explore foundational models, multimodal alignment, and autonomous agent systems within a fast-paced, research-driven environment.

Qualified applicants have PhD in CS/ML or related fields, and strong background in CV, NLP, and DL frameworks. The role offers challenging problems, collaboration across disciplines, and potential contributions to

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or related field.
• Experience in computer vision, NLP, and ML.
• Strong knowledge of deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, MXNet, Caffe/Caffe2).
• Familiar with transformer/SSM/CNN/RNN/LSTM architectures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; collaborative work.

Responsibilities

• Join TikTok's genAI team to advance research outputs and production-ready models.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate multimodal models into content understanding.
• Tackle challenges in automated reasoning, long-horizon planning, and scalable training.

Skills

Computer vision

Natural language processing

Machine learning

Education

PhD in Computer Science / ML

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

MXNet

Caffe/Caffe2

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking highly qualified graduate-level researchers to join the genAI and content understanding team in Los Angeles County. Candidates will explore foundational models, multimodal alignment, and autonomous agent systems within a fast-paced, research-driven environment.

Qualified applicants have PhD in CS/ML or related fields, and strong background in CV, NLP, and DL frameworks. The role offers challenging problems, collaboration across disciplines, and potential contributions to