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Research Scientist Graduate - LLM, Trust and Safety - 2025 Start (PhD)

TikTok
San Jose
Full-time

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join UsCreation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity;

to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together.

That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve. Join us. 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.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities.

Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok. We are seeking a highly-motivated and talented Research Scientist to join our team as part of our campus recruitment program.

The primary focus of this role is to build large language models (LLMs) for a broad range of downstream businesses in TikTok.

Responsibilities : Conducting applied research on LLM pretraining technique, including but not limited on1. Building data curation pipelines and exploring innovative ways to measure data quality and diversity2.

Understanding scaling laws and their applications3. Optimizing model training framework to achieve better training efficiency 4.

Establishing comprehensive evaluation metrics

Minimum Qualifications : 1. PhD degree or equivalent Degree in Computer Science or related engineering field2. Solid knowledge in at least one of the following areas : machine learning, large language models, NLP, multi-modal models, and data mining.

3. Good understanding of data structures and algorithms4. Great communication and teamwork skills5. Passion about techniques and solving challenging problems

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