Research 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 behavior violating TikTok's community guidelines and related regulations. The work sits in the algorithm team, focused on improving recognition of violating content across the platform.

What you'd do

• Develop computer vision or multimodal models that recognize violating content on TikTok.
• Explore large multimodal and vision models and assess their fit for content understanding.
• Explore LLM applications such as pre-training, zero-shot and few-shot learning, and hard case mining.
• Optimize the distributed model training framework to handle training of large models.

What it asks for

• PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline, completed or recently completed.
• Research experience in at least one of computer vision, multimodality, or LLMs.
• Proficiency with at least one deep learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, logical thinking, communication and collaboration skills.
• Published papers at accredited venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI or IJCV (preferred).

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