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(General Hire) Research Scientist Graduate(TikTok Recommendation) - 2026 Start (PhD)

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Conducting research and development on cutting-edge computer vision, NLP, multi-modality, LLM, and generative modeling to empower genAI and content understanding in TikTok businesses.

Role type

Research Scientist (Graduate)

Builds

Foundational models including multi-modality pretraining, multi-modal large language models, image generation, and video generation.

Domain

GenAI, Content Understanding, Recommendation Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Computer vision, Natural language processing, Machine learning, Deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, MXNet, Caffe/Caffe2), Deep neural network architectures (transformer, SSM, CNN, RNN, LSTM)

Preferred skills

Publications in major AI venues (SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR)

Responsibilities

Conducting development and research on cutting-edge CV, NLP, multi-modality, LLM, and generative modeling; Following SoTA progress in relevant fields and transforming ideas into production; Managing the life-cycle of model development from training to deployment and maintenance for business scenarios.

Seniority

Graduate (PhD)

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