PhD Applied Scientist Intern: Generative AI for Ads

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays

Housing allowance

Job summary

TikTok is offering a PhD Internship in 2027 within the Generative AI team under Monetization Technology. The role blends hands-on research with contributions to products and future technologies for advertisers, agencies, and creators.

You will work on building an intelligent, automated ad delivery system driven by RL, multimodal analysis, and scalable video understanding to improve content replication and ROI.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in a technical discipline (CS/CE/SE/related).
• Modeling experience in ads, search, recommender systems, NLP/CV, multimodal, or agent tech.

Responsibilities

• Build an intelligent ad delivery system optimized for long-term value (LTV) and ROAS.
• Apply reinforcement learning and multimodal analysis to improve ad content generation and delivery.

Skills

PhD candidate

LLM algorithms

Academic publications

Education

PhD in CS/CE/Software or related

Job description

TikTok is offering a PhD Internship in 2027 within the Generative AI team under Monetization Technology. The role blends hands-on research with contributions to products and future technologies for advertisers, agencies, and creators.

You will work on building an intelligent, automated ad delivery system driven by RL, multimodal analysis, and scalable video understanding to improve content replication and ROI.