Generative AI Researcher Intern (Intelligent Creation-Vision and Graphics) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Our team's mission is to empower content interaction and creation using CV-related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like video understanding, multimodal understanding, image and video synthesis, 3D vision, and intelligent editing.

About the role

This internship provides students the opportunity to join one of our engineering teams where you will:

• 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 TikTok products

Requirements

• Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during 2027
• 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, preferring candidates with publications in conferences such as SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming
• Ability to work and collaborate well with team members
• Ability to work independently

Qualifications

• Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications
• High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities

Pay

The hourly rate range for this position is $60–$60.

Benefits

• Day one access to health insurance, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year, 40 if hired in the second half)
• Eligibility for housing allowance (for interns not working 100% remote)

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.