Machine Learning Scientist Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety) - 2027 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 community guidelines and related regulations on TikTok. The algorithm team works on content understanding models that improve recognition of violating content, along with the distributed training framework behind them.

What you'd do

• Develop content understanding models to improve recognition of violating content on the platform.
• Optimize the distributed model training framework on an ongoing basis.
• Work with product teams to define business objectives and shape trust and safety strategy.
• Work with engineering teams to deploy models, design online model workflows, and build serving pipelines at scale.
• Work with the data science team to identify key challenges and propose data-driven strategies.
• Build classifiers and learning systems across text, images and combined media, including reinforcement learning and large language models, for content understanding.

What it asks for

• PhD in computer science or a related discipline, completed or recently completed.
• Strong coding skills.
• Curiosity about new technologies and entrepreneurship.
• Solid skills in communicating and working within a team.

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