Responsibilities
Our team's mission is to empower recommender systems with reasoning and planning capabilities, enabling them to move beyond surface-level personalization and foster long-term user growth, satisfaction, and trust. This mission is supported by ongoing research and the practical application of multimodal large language models, reinforcement learning, uncertainty estimation, and alignment. As a pioneer in the field, we are committed to producing groundbreaking research that advances both academic understanding and real-world deployment, helping to shape the future of intelligent recommendation systems. If you are excited about working at the frontier of applied research with real product impact-and contributing to a high-caliber, collaborative, and curious team-we'd love to hear from you.
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We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026.
We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit to these start dates. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities
- Driving research on generative recommendation models with reasoning and planning capabilities to foster long-term objectives
- Following SoTA progress in relevant fields and identifying valuable ideas for implementation
- Generative recommendation model development, training, deployment, and maintenance
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research, or a related field
- Solid knowledge of machine learning or reinforcement learning
Preferred Qualifications:
- Publications in top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, RecSys, KDD, WWW, or WSDM
- Strong coding skill
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $359720 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.