Immersive Audio AI Research Intern (PhD)

TikTok; Sydney; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok's Audio Innovation team in Multimedia Lab seeks a PhD internship to advance intelligent audio understanding and processing, including codecs for short video, live streaming, and VR/AR. The role blends hands-on ML R&D with standardization work and collaboration with industry experts.

Ideal candidates have strong ML/DL background and publication history; availability for 2027 start dates and rolling applications are encouraged.

Qualifications

• Master's degree (Research) or higher in electronic information, computer, multimedia, ML/AI.
• Research experience in GAN/Diffusion audio processing, voiceprint/wake-up, SED, ASR, or NLP.
• Familiar with data structures, deep networks, and open-source tools; large-scale training data experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Research and implement the department's self-developed next-gen intelligent audio understanding and processing algorithm system.
• Implement and optimize intelligent audio codec for short video on demand, LIVE, VR/MR and related scenarios.
• Engage in domestic and international audio standards work; draft high-quality technical proposals.

Skills

GAN/Diffusion audio processing

Voiceprint wake-up

Natural Language Processing

Deep neural networks

Model training

Education

Master's degree (Research) or above

PhD degree preferred

Tools

Kaldi

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

TikTok's Audio Innovation team in Multimedia Lab seeks a PhD internship to advance intelligent audio understanding and processing, including codecs for short video, live streaming, and VR/AR. The role blends hands-on ML R&D with standardization work and collaboration with industry experts.

Ideal candidates have strong ML/DL background and publication history; availability for 2027 start dates and rolling applications are encouraged.