Research Scientist - Privacy-Preserving Large-Scale ...

At TikTok, we treat privacy as our top priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance, but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users' privacy choices! Privacy Innovation (PI) Lab is established to explore the next frontier of privacy technology and theory in the digitalized world. We provide key insights and technical solutions on privacy-related innovation for all TikTok's products. Furthermore, we also collaborate with worldwide technical and academic communities to build an open ecosystem to promote a privacy-friendly digital experience. Responsibilities * Design and execute research on the critical industrial challenges of GenAI innovation. * Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from the TikTok product family and provide technical consulting on privacy-related features. * Work with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from our research to product prototyping. * Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations. * Represent PI Lab and our work in the external technical and academic community.Minimum Qualifications: * PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. * Research experience in GenAI with a strong publication record or contributions to open-source projects. Preferred Qualifications: * 2 years of research or production experience in the following areas: * Pretraining, fine-tuning, and post-training * Responsible AI, privacy-preserving LLMs, and LLM alignment * Reinforcement learning for tuning language models * Efficient training and inference techniques

Created: 2026-04-15