Research Scientist Intern (Data-TnS-Algo-Foundations & Intelligence Service) - 2027 Start (PhD)
TikTok, San Jose, California
The role
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date).
What you will do
- Pretraining & Continued Pretraining (CPT): Explore and develop approaches that improve general capability and safety for LLMs and VLMs via pretraining/CPT.
- Evaluation & Measurement: Build advanced evaluation systems to study emerging LLM/VLM skills and safety behaviors, aligned with real downstream use.