[Remote] Research Scientist Intern (TikTok-Recommendation-Content Intelligence) - 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 for the recommendation algorithm team. The role involves conducting research on cutting-edge technologies and developing models that drive product impact and platform growth.
Responsibilities
- Conducting development and research on cutting-edge CV, NLP, multi-modality, LLM, generative modeling
- Following SoTA progress in relevant fields and transform the ideas into production
- Life-cycle model development, from model training, deployment, maintenance, till its use in business scenarios
Skills
- Currently pursuing PhD Degree
- Experience in one of more areas of computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning
- Solid knowledge and experience with at least one major deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, MXNet)
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams
- Degree in computer science, electrical engineering or related fields
- Graduating December 2025 onwards with the intent to return to degree program after the completion of the internship
- Authors with publications in top-tier venues such as SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR
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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