About the role#
The Business Integrity team builds content understanding systems for monetization. As an Applied Scientist Intern, you will help create an ecosystem that balances user experience with advertiser value. You will work on a next-generation moderation system designed to handle complex content and adversarial tactics.
What you'll do#
- Build a moderation system that provides end-to-end capabilities for accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation.
- Develop automated moderation processes that aim to surpass human performance benchmarks.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Development, or a related technical field.
- Modeling experience in areas such as Ads, Search engines, Recommender Systems, NLP/CV, multimodal systems, or agent technologies.
- A solid foundation in LLM algorithms, including practical experience with single-modal LLM application and deployment.
- A strong record of publications in top conferences like ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, or ECCV.
Location & details#
- Location: San Jose, California.
- This is a full-time, on-site internship.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
About TikTok
TikTok operates as an entertainment provider. The company maintains a global presence with offices in cities including Los Angeles, Singapore, New York, London, and Tokyo. It employs over 92,000 people. The organization is privately held.
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