CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Trust and Safety Platform) - 2027 Start (PhD)

TikTok

Location
Singapore
Salary range
Not stated
Workplace
In office
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
Engineering
Posted
Recently

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P1, Junior / Specialist. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Singapore. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Singapore, add your pay to help others. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: an early-career or graduate seat · the title reads as P2.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.

Builds computer vision, NLP and multimodal models that recognize content violating TikTok's community guidelines, within the Algo team that protects the platform and its users. The team's work covers the content understanding models used to flag violating content, along with the distributed training framework those models depend on.

What you'd do

  • Develop computer vision or multimodal models that recognize violating content on TikTok.
  • Explore and adapt large multimodal and vision models such as CLIP, BLIP, Flamingo and ViT-22B.
  • Investigate LLM applications like pre-training, zero-shot and few-shot learning, and hard case mining.
  • Continuously optimize the distributed training framework for large model training.

What it asks for

  • Doctorate in computer science, computer engineering or an adjacent field, finished or close to finishing (required).
  • Proficiency with at least one deep learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow (required).
  • Experience building computer vision or multimodal models (stated as ideal).
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills (required).
  • Publications in top AI conferences or journals such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML or ICLR (preferred).

Worth knowing

  • Graduate role requiring commitment to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

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About TikTok

The employer

About TikTok

Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016

Company profile

Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.

Moderation, reported

TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.

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