Researcher Intern (Vision and Graphics) - 2026 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities

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

• 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

Qualifications

• Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026
• 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 top-tier venues such as SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming
• Work and collaborate well with team members
• Ability to work independently

Preferred Qualifications

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