[Remote] Research Scientist Intern- (Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Start(PhD)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Research Scientist Intern to contribute to the development of advanced models for content understanding. The role involves optimizing algorithms to enhance the recognition of content that violates community guidelines.

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

Skills

• PhD candidate 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)
• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, logical thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills
• Published papers in the top AI conferences or journals is a plus, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, IJCV, etc

Benefits

• Day one access to health insurance
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
• Housing allowance

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