TikTok 2023 Internship Program for PhD Students for Master

Eligibility Criteria

• Open to individuals currently pursuing a relevant PhD with a bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science/mathematics/computational statistics or related subjects;
• Available to work full time for a minimum of three months;
• Start dates are flexible and will be discussed during the recruitment process;
• Passion for modern machine learning and cutting-edge technology;
• Good programming ability, proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, C/C++, etc. (Python preferred);
• Familiar with commonly used machine learning algorithms and experience using at least one deep learning framework. (such as Pytorch, TensorFlow, JAX etc.);
• Good communication skills, teamwork spirit, analytical skills and learning ability;
• Publications in top machine learning journals or conferences (such as ICML, NeurIPS, JMLR, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, AISTATS, KDD, SIGIR, WWW etc.) are a plus.

Offered Benefits

• Participate in cutting-edge research on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, recommendation systems, search ranking and other fields.
• Collaborate closely with TikTok’s research team and work in the ever-growing field of machine learning fairness and responsible AI. This includes but is not limited to AI interpretability & explainability, causal inference and robustness.
• Participate in model building, performance optimization, and project deployment.

Application Process