Machine Learning Research Scientist Graduate (Business Integrity) - 2026 Start (PhD)

About the role

TikTok's Business Integrity team is looking for a machine learning research scientist graduate to join in 2026. The team builds a next-generation content understanding system for TikTok monetization and works with global teams to build highly scalable machine learning models. Candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of 2026 and state their availability and graduation date in their resume.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning, computer vision or natural language processing.
• Support and incubate products with machine learning, especially state-of-the-art AIGC techniques such as GPT and Stable Diffusion.

Required profile

• Final year Ph.D. or recent Ph.D. graduate in Computer Science, engineering or a quantitative field.
• Rich research experience, including first-author papers at venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI, IJCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL.
• Graduate starting in 2026; availability and graduation date stated in the application.

Required skills

• Image/video search, classification and recognition
• Object detection, segmentation and tracking
• Representation learning (multi-modality, pre-training, vision transformers)
• OCR
• Image/video/multimodal generative models and large language models