PhD Research Scientist Intern — GenAI & Multimodal ML

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Housing allowance

Paid holidays

Job summary

TikTok is seeking PhD interns to contribute to genAI and content understanding research and development. You will work on foundational models and multimodal systems, collaborating with a cross-disciplinary team to push the boundaries of content recommendation and generation.

The internship offers hands-on learning, professional development events, and opportunities to engage with industry experts, with rolling applications and guidance to include start/end dates in resumes.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in CS, ML, AI, Stats or related field.
• Experience in CV, NLP, or ML.
• Strong knowledge of a major DL framework (PyTorch, TensorFlow, MXNet, Caffe).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to research and product-facing AI projects on genAI and content understanding.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams including infra, PMO, and researchers.
• Present findings and iterate on models and experiments.

Skills

PhD candidate

Computer vision

NLP

Machine learning

Education

PhD in Computer Science / ML / AI

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

MXNet

Caffe/Caffe2

Job description

TikTok is seeking PhD interns to contribute to genAI and content understanding research and development. You will work on foundational models and multimodal systems, collaborating with a cross-disciplinary team to push the boundaries of content recommendation and generation.

The internship offers hands-on learning, professional development events, and opportunities to engage with industry experts, with rolling applications and guidance to include start/end dates in resumes.