PhD Internship: Advanced Moderation ML Scientist

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 97,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Housing allowance

Paid holidays

Paid sick time

Job summary

TikTok is inviting PhD interns to join our Business Integrity research efforts in Los Angeles. You will help build a leading moderation system for end-to-end decisions with interpretable reasoning and automated remediation in a fast-growing tech environment.

As an intern, you will collaborate with global teams, contribute to state-of-the-art ML models, and gain hands-on experience shaping products that balance user experience and advertiser value.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD with relevant research background.
• Experience in ML research areas: Ads, Search, Recommender Systems, NLP, CV, Multimodal, or Agent technologies.
• Strong Python skills and experience with at least one DL framework (PyTorch or TensorFlow).
• Ability to formulate research problems, design experiments, and derive conclusions from data.

Responsibilities

• Build a leading moderation system enabling end-to-end decisions and interpretable reasoning.
• Develop scalable ML models to support content moderation and advertiser value.
• Collaborate with global teams to translate research into practical product features.

Skills

ML research

Python

Collaboration

Education

PhD student in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Automation, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field (expected to graduate within 12 months)

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

TikTok is inviting PhD interns to join our Business Integrity research efforts in Los Angeles. You will help build a leading moderation system for end-to-end decisions with interpretable reasoning and automated remediation in a fast-growing tech environment.

As an intern, you will collaborate with global teams, contribute to state-of-the-art ML models, and gain hands-on experience shaping products that balance user experience and advertiser value.