Job Description
Responsibilities 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.
About the team
The Intelligent Creation Team is the AI, special effects, and audio-video creation technology team, responsible for core technology and business development. It covers a variety of technical fields, including deep learning, computer vision, graphics, speech, recording and editing, special effects, client and server engineering, and provides cutting-edge content understanding, content creation, interactive experience, and consumption capabilities and industry solutions to other business lines within the company and external partners in various forms.
Responsibilities
- Lead the cutting-edge research and development related to computer vision, machine learning, especially in the areas of multi-modal understanding, vision and language, large-scale training, etc.
- Provide technical leadership, drive projects and define long term technical roadmap for the team, including business strategy, technology development, as well as team planning and management.
- Transfer advanced technologies to ByteDance products.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications
- Masters or PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering engineering with at least 5 years of research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision, including but not limited to:
- Experience in multimodal understanding, such as video highlight detection and slicing, audio/music understanding, etc.
- Experience in vision and language, such as image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA, and other related fields.
- Experience with language models and apply them in various downstream tasks, especially for intelligent editing.
- Experience in large-scale training and RLHF.
- Experienced in implementing and optimizing complex and performance-critical systems.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in multi-functional teams.
- Self-motivated and strong problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in managing or tech-leading a team in a fast-paced environment with record of shipping technologies to products.
- Preferring candidates with publications in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc.
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
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