Machine Learning (LLM Application) - Global Live - Operation Intelligence Intern- 2025 Start

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

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

With the enormous growth of live streaming in recent years, our mission is to inspire real-time interactions and help live streamers connect to people from all corners of the globe.
We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us to build and optimize a real-time, high-performance, large-scale distributed infrastructure for live streaming in TikTok. You will be deeply involved in the developmental lifecycle of critical product features and collaborate closely with product managers to deliver the best live streaming experience for all live streamers and audience alike.

Team Introduction
The Live Platform Intelligence team's mission is to use model-driven and data-driven methods to promote core indicators on LIVE revenue and creator engagement. This includes:
- Building models for automated and intelligent operations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of TikTok Live supply end.
- Identifying and handling inappropriate user behavior and business anomalies to ensure the steady and ongoing operation of the TikTok Live business.
- Spearheading analytical excellence with a penchant for creative problem-solving. Our team operates at the intersection of data science and live content, ensuring engaging and personalized experiences for our global community of creators and viewers.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2025. PhD Internships at TikTok aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to either of the following Internships
- From January to June
- From May to August (Summer)

Responsibilities
- Adopt cutting-edge Large Language Models that potentially improve business metrics (revenue and content quality), bringing an optimized experience for creators and operators in the live business.
- Dive deep into machine learning methods, including large language models (LLMs), multimodal models, and image/video generation models, adapting these methods to TikTok Live scenarios and serving as foundational models and features.