Machine Learning Engineer Graduate - (TikTok Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Start(PHD)

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

Builds computer vision, NLP and multimodal models that detect content and behaviors violating TikTok's community guidelines and related regulations. The algorithm team works on content understanding models that improve recognition of violating content, plus the distributed training framework behind them.

What you'd do

• Work with product teams to set business goals and sharpen trust and safety strategy.
• Help engineering teams ship machine learning models, plan online model workflows and build serving pipelines at scale.
• Build serving pipelines for models at scale.
• Partner with the data science team to define key challenges and propose data-driven strategies.
• Develop unimodal and multimodal content classifiers, active learning and reinforcement learning models, and large language models for content understanding.
• Optimize the distributed model training framework on an ongoing basis.

What it asks for

• PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, operations research, applied mathematics or a similar quantitative field.
• Strong coding skills.
• Curiosity about new technologies and entrepreneurship, with good communication and teamwork skills.
• Able to commit to an onboarding date by end of 2026.

Worth knowing

• Graduate role starting in 2026.

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