Research Scientist Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety) - 2027 Start(PhD)
- Location
- Seattle, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $153,900 – $300,960 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Data & Analytics
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $130k to $190k at an employer this size in Seattle. 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.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: an early-career or graduate seat · posts $154k to $301k base at a company over 5,000 in Seattle · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Builds computer vision, NLP and multimodal models that detect content and behavior violating community guidelines and related regulations on TikTok. The work sits in the algorithm team, which develops models that recognize violating content and optimizes the distributed training framework behind them.
What you'd do
- Develop computer vision or multimodal models to recognize violating content on TikTok.
- Explore large multimodal and vision models such as CLIP, BLIP, Flamingo and ViT variants.
- Apply LLMs to business scenarios, including pre-training, zero-shot and few-shot learning, and hard case mining.
- Continuously optimize the training framework so it handles training of large models.
What it asks for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in computer science or a related discipline.
- 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 major AI conferences or journals such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML or ICLR (preferred).
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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
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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