Research Scientist Intern (TikTok- Data- RecScience) - 2025 Summer (PhD)

Our team's mission is to empower GenAI and content understanding in TikTok businesses. Computer vision and natural language processing are important dimensions in both content generation and understanding. We are working on various foundational models, including multi-modality pre-training, multi-modal large language model, image generation, video generation etc. As a GenAI team on the business side, we try to succeed in both achieving business metric gains (recommendation metrics), and also producing state-of-the-art research outputs.



We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2025. Internships at TikTok aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Turn your ambitions into reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at TikTok.



This Internship Program runs for 10-24 weeks. Candidates can also apply for both Off-cycle Intern position and Program Intern position.



Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early. 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 TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.



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 TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early



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

- Publish academic papers in top-tier venues, release legal-compliant outcomes from the projects