LLM & Agent Algorithm Project Intern (Search) - 2026 Start (PhD)
TikTok, Singapore
The role
As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
What you will do
- 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).