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Research Scientist Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety) - 2027 Start(PhD)
Seattle, Washington, USA
On-site
First seen Nov 15, 2026
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TikTok had H-1B petitions approved for 454 workers in fiscal year 2026 (USCIS). That is history, not a promise for this role. See the record
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Research Scientist Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety) - 2027 Start(PhD) at TikTok, an on-site role based in Seattle, Washington, USA. First seen on RealAnalystJobs on 15 November 2026, read from TikTok's own careers page (TikTok), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. TikTok has approved H-1B petitions on USCIS record (employer-wide, not a promise for this role).
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The algorithm team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art computer vision, NLP and multimodality models and algorithms to protect our platform and users from the content and behaviors that violate community guidelines and related regulations. With the continuous efforts from our team, TikTok is able to provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world.
In our team, you will have the opportunity to participate in the development of the cutting-edge content understanding model to help improve the recognition ability of violated content in TikTok, and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously.
We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
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
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in computer science or a related 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- Published papers in the major AI conferences or journals is a plus, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, IJCV, etc
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