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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate - (TikTok Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Start(PHD)

TikTok

Skills

Required

  • Machine learning
  • Large Language Models
  • Recommendation Systems

Preferred

  • design online model workflow
  • unimodal/multimodal content classifiers

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Collaborate with product teams to define business objectives and improve trust and safety strategy.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy machine learning models, design online model workflow, and implement serving pipelines at scale.
  • Collaborate with the data scientist team to understand the key challenges and propose data-driven strategies.
  • Work on state-of-the-art content understanding techniques including but not limited to unimodal/multimodal content classifiers, Active learning models, Reinforcement learning models, and Large Language Models.

Requirements

  • Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Ph.D in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operation Research, Applied Mathematics or similar quantitative fields.
  • Hands-on or academic experience in one or more of the following areas: Machine learning, Large Language Models, Recommendation Systems, and related areas.
  • Strong coding skills.
  • Curiosity towards new technologies and entrepreneurship, good communication and teamwork skills.

Application

  • Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
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