Team Introduction
Our Business Integrity team has a strong user focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We aim to meet our users' needs with reliable and high-performing platforms and services. We are looking for strong machine learning engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable machine learning models, and partner across disciplines with global teams, in pursuit of excellence. Given the fast growth of TikTok in the world, we are working on building a next-generation content understanding system for TikTok monetization. We are seeking Research Engineers who are experienced in machine learning, which can help us create an ecosystem that rewards high quality user experience and advertiser value.
We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities:
- Focus on ad content understanding and security, conduct algorithm R&D for large model implementation, and apply LLM/MLLM and other AIGC technologies to e-commerce and short-video ad content understanding to build a next-gen large model-based commercial intelligence review system.
- Deepen multimodal understanding tech for text, audio, video, live streaming, etc., optimize model decision-making for high-accuracy autonomous risk judgment, and implement interpretable CoT generation for traceable model decisions.
- Explore RL/Agent applications in multimodal review scenarios, track AIGC cutting-edge trends, and deliver algorithm innovation and engineering implementation tailored to commercial business needs.
- Develop dedicated multimodal content understanding models to empower ad intent recognition, intelligent rule retrieval and accurate risk judgment, enhance advertisers' creation experience, reduce non-compliant content non-detection risks, and protect ad ecosystem security.Minimum Qualification(s):
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Master/Ph.D degree in Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, Statistics or related majors
- Familiar with algorithm R&D/project implementation experience in content understanding or AIGC.
- Solid ML/DL theoretical foundation, in-depth understanding of MLLM/LLM, CV, NLP, multimodal fusion and Agent technologies; strong mathematical skills, excellent self-learning and problem-solving abilities;
- Proficient in PyTorch/TensorFlow, with hands-on experience in large model training, fine-tuning and inference deployment; excellent engineering capabilities, master Python/C++.
- Familiar with technical principles and applications of multimodal large models;
- Accredited publications at CS/ML conferences.
Preferred Qualification(s)
- Project implementation experience preferred
- Experience in content understanding, ad analysis, multimodal representation learning or intelligent review preferred.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com