Intelligent Audio Algorithm Research Intern (Audio Innovation) - 2027 Start(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

Intelligent Audio Algorithm Research Intern (Audio Innovation) - 2027 Start(PhD)

About the team

Welcome to the Audio Innovation team under TikTok's most pioneering research team - Multimedia Lab! We are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of immersive audio technology and standardization. In addition to supporting TikTok requirements including short video, live-streaming, content creation tools and also VR/AR experiences, we also stay up-to-date with the latest research in the industry and participate in audio Standards Developing Organizations(SDO) such as MPEG, 3GPP, and IETF, etc. As part of our commitment to innovation, we proactively conduct R&D using Machine Learning and NN models(especially generative models) for immersive audio technology. If you're looking to work with a team that values creativity, innovation, and collaboration, we'd love to hear from you. Please join us to reshape the audio world together.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2027. PhD Internships at our Company aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.

PhD internships at Our Company provides students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).

Responsibilities

• Research and implement the department's self-developed next-generation intelligent audio understanding and processing algorithm system.
• Implement and optimize intelligent audio codec and processing system, responsible for application iteration in short Video On Demand, LIVE, VR/MR and other business scenarios.
• Follow up and participate in domestic and international audio standards, write high-quality standard technical proposals, and promote domestic and international intelligent audio standard work.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree (Research) or above majors in electronic information, computer, multimedia, Machine Learning, AI artificial intelligence.
• Research experience in one or several fields such as GAN/Diffusion audio processing, voiceprint/wake-up, sound event detection, automatic speech recognition, Natural Language Processing, etc.
• Familiar with data structures and algorithms, deep network model design and tuning, proficient in open source tools such as Kaldi, TensorFlow, Pytorch, etc., and experience in model training and exploration of large-scale training datasets is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD degree majors in related majors such as electronic information, computer, multimedia, Machine Learning, AI artificial intelligence.
• Hands-on experience in Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence/Data Processing areas.
• Priority will be given to those who have published papers in relevant international conferences or mainstream journals (ICASSP, Interspeech, ASRU, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAAI, etc.)

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at ***************@tiktok.com