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Research Scientist Graduate - Trust and Safety - PhD

TikTok

$129,960 - $246,240
Sep 20, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
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TikTok is looking to solve the problem of protecting its platform and users from content and behaviors that violate community guidelines and related regulations by developing state-of-the-art computer vision, NLP, and multimodality models and algorithms.

Requirements

  • PhD degree in computer science or a related technical discipline
  • Related Research Experience at least one of the following areas: computer vision, multimodality, LLM
  • Be proficient with at least one deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)
  • Published papers in the top AI conferences or journals is a plus, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, IJCV, etc

Responsibilities

  • Develop computer vision model or multimodality model to recognize violation content in TikTok
  • Explore cutting-edge multimodal or computer vision large models (CLIP, COCA, ALBEF, BLIP, Flamingo, ViT-G, ViT-22B, EVA-enormous, etc)
  • Explore the application of LLM in our business scenarios, like pre-training, zero-shot/ few-shot learning, hard case mining, etc
  • Continuously optimize the training framework to better adapt to the training of large models

Other

  • Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, logical thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills
  • Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws
  • 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits
  • TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws