Researcher Intern; Vision and Graphics PhD

Responsibilities

Our team's mission is to empower content interaction and creation using CV related technologies. We focus on cutting‑edge R&D in areas such as video understanding, multimodal understanding, image and video synthesis, 3D vision, and intelligent editing. We are looking for Research Interns in computer vision and machine learning at all levels at Tik Tok.

PhD internships at Tik Tok provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands‑on learning, enriching community‑building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis – we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your résumé (start date, end date).

• Build new features that touch hundreds of millions of people around the world.
• Solve unique, large‑scale, highly complex technical problems.
• Build the next‑generation monetization platform to help millions of customers grow their businesses.
• Work with your mentor to deliver product features and make engineering improvements.
• Build world‑class web applications that combine usability, accessibility, elegance, performance, and maintainability.
• Conduct cutting‑edge research and development in computer vision, machine learning and other related fields.
• Work with Research Scientists to deliver advanced technologies to Tik Tok products.

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Strong track record of research in one or more areas of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning; preference for publications in top‑tier venues such as SIGGRAPH, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR.
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming.
• Work and collaborate well with team members.
• Ability to work independently.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

• Graduating December 2026 onwards with the intent to return to a degree program after the internship.
• Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internships, work experience, coding competitions, or publications.
• High levels of creativity and quick problem‑solving capabilities.

• Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties: interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues; appropriately handling and managing confidential information, including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and exercising sound judgment.

Compensation:
Hourly rate range $60 per hour.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day‑one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of the year, 40 if hired in second half). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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