(General Hire) Research Scientist Graduate - TikTok Recommendation - 2025 Start (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 pretraining, 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.



This opening is part of the general hiring process for the TikTok Recommendation organization. Applications will be evaluated by multiple teams within the Recommendation organization to ensure the best fit based on skills and interests.



We are looking for strong research scientist 2025 Graduates , who are excited about growing their business understanding, building scalable and high-performance models and systems, and partnering across disciplines with global teams, in pursuit of excellence.



Responsibilities

1. Conducting development and research on cutting-edge CV, NLP, multi-modality, LLM, generative modeling

2. Following SoTA progress in relevant fields and transform the ideas into production

3. Life-cycle model development, from model training, deployment, maintenance, till its use in business scenarios.