LLM & Agent Algorithm Project Intern (Search) - 2026 Start (PhD)

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

Job Responsibilities
- Search LLM Foundation R&D: Build and optimize the search-domain LLM foundation, integrating search knowledge to rapidly deliver business value; develop and refine the post-training pipeline for search LLMs (ultra-long-text / colloquial-text pre-training, image-text / video multimodal representation, e-commerce product multimodal representation learning, etc.); participate in LLM inference optimization (long-context optimization, model efficiency optimization).
- Agent Engineering & Multi-Agent Orchestration (Harness / Loop): Contribute to building the search Agent execution framework (Harness) - unified orchestration of tool calling, planning, memory, and environment interaction; multi-agent cluster scheduling and collaboration algorithms (task allocation, dynamic scheduling, inter-agent communication / alignment / conflict resolution); build the Agent Loop and the "training-inference-evaluation" closed-loop engineering.
- Long-term Memory, Self-Improvement & Data Closed Loop (Self-Evolve / RSI): Work on long-term memory mechanisms for LLMs, cross-context knowledge integration, and related directions; engage in cutting-edge exploration of self-evolve / self-improvement and recursive self-improvement (RSI) (automated hyperparameter tuning, training pipeline automation, AI-assisted algorithm design, model iteration closed loop); data synthesis and quality control (high-quality vertical-domain data synthesis, distribution alignment, synthetic data quality evaluation / filtering / refinement).
- Evaluation & Reward/Verifier Systems: Help build online Reward/Verifier systems and automated evaluation frameworks - annotation-free automated evaluation, evaluation of long-cycle complex tasks and cross-domain capabilities, and multi-agent collaboration evaluation standards.
- Business Implementation:
- Long-horizon task Agents (persistent intent)
- Multimodal AIGC creation: leveraging SOTA models for image/video generation to power the Feed's "ask-after-viewing / create-after-viewing" experiences and strengthen users' proactive mindset;
- Visual search & on-device intelligence: object detection, OCR, TinyLLM;
- Search content / creator ecosystem, etc.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s):
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree or above, Computer Science or related majors preferred.
- Solid foundation in machine learning / deep learning and familiarity with cutting-edge LLM and Agent technologies; publications at top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR / ACL / EMNLP / CVPR / ICCV / ECCV / AAAI, or competition awards, are a plus.
- Experience with LLM / Agent-related projects is preferred: LLM pre-training / fine-tuning / alignment, Agent development (tool calling, planning, memory, multi-agent collaboration), RAG, RLHF / RLAIF, data synthesis, automated evaluation, etc.
- Familiarity with PyTorch / TensorFlow for model training and deployment; understanding of acceleration methods such as distributed training and mixed-precision training; knowledge of model compression and inference acceleration (quantization, pruning, distillation, TensorRT, etc.).
- Familiarity with big data frameworks and applications (MapReduce / Spark, etc.) is a plus.

Preferred Qualification(s):
- Familiarity with any of the following directions is preferred:
- LLM & Agent: pre-training / SFT / alignment, long context, Agent Harness and multi-agent orchestration, data synthesis, self-improvement (Loop / RSI), automated evaluation;
- CV & Multimodal: image / video retrieval, classification and recognition, image segmentation, object detection, OCR, graph neural networks, multimodal learning, self-/unsupervised learning; experience with CV / multimodal large-model projects, or awards in Kaggle / COCO / ImageNet / ActivityNet, are a plus; CVPR / ICCV / ECCV publications preferred;
- NLP: pre-training, natural language understanding, multilingual / cross-lingual learning, natural language generation, transfer / semi-supervised learning; LLM project experience, or awards in GLUE / SuperGLUE / CLUE, are a plus; ACL / EMNLP publications preferred.
- Excellent engineering implementation and learning ability, strong collaboration and communication skills, and genuine passion for search and Agent directions.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com

Client-provided location(s): Singapore

Job ID: TikTok-7654832152997742853

Employment Type: INTERN

Posted: 2026-06-25T21:25:19