(General Hire) Research Scientist Intern (Monetization Technology) - 2026 Start (PhD)
Core
Developing state-of-the-art applied machine learning projects and owning key targeting components within a large-scale Ads system to support TikTok's monetization platforms.
Role type
PhD Research Scientist Intern (Monetization Technology)
Builds
Large-scale Ads system, targeting strategies, and applied ML projects for feeds, live streaming, branding, and search.
Domain
Advertising technology, machine learning, multimodal AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Applied machine learning, multimodality foundation models, large-scale system development, targeting strategy design
Preferred skills
Experience in AI research organizations, publications in top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR)
Technologies
Multimodal foundation models, large-scale ad systems
Responsibilities
Develop state-of-the-art applied machine learning projects; Own key targeting components or strategies in the TikTok ads monetization ecosystem; Participate in the development of a large-scale Ads system; Work with product and business teams on product vision.
Seniority
Intern, PhD level
