Research Scientist Intern — CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM (Trust & Safety)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays

Housing allowance

Campus internship benefits

Job summary

TikTok invites a PhD internship candidate to join the algorithm research team in San Jose, working onsite to advance state-of-the-art computer vision, NLP, and multimodality models for content understanding and safety. You will explore modern models and LLM applications, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to hands-on research, prototyping, and experiments that drive product impact.

This paid campus internship includes health insurance, holidays, and housing allowance where

Qualifications

• PhD candidate in computer science or a related technical discipline.
• Related Research Experience in computer vision, multimodality, or LLM.
• Proficient with at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch or TensorFlow).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and collaborative skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop computer vision or multimodality models to recognize violation content in TikTok.
• Explore cutting-edge multimodal or computer vision large models (CLIP, COCA, ALBEF, BLIP, Flamingo, ViT-G, ViT-22B, EVA-enormous, etc.).
• Explore the application of LLMs in business scenarios (pre-training, zero-shot/few-shot, hard case mining).
• Continuously optimize the training framework for large models.

Skills

Deep learning

Research experience

PyTorch/TensorFlow

Communication & collaboration

Education

PhD candidate in CS or related

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

TikTok invites a PhD internship candidate to join the algorithm research team in San Jose, working onsite to advance state-of-the-art computer vision, NLP, and multimodality models for content understanding and safety. You will explore modern models and LLM applications, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to hands-on research, prototyping, and experiments that drive product impact.

This paid campus internship includes health insurance, holidays, and housing allowance where