Generative AI Research Scientist — PhD

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok’s Creative AI team under Monetization Technology is seeking a PhD-level researcher to develop cutting-edge Generative AI technologies for ads. The role focuses on enabling automated creative workflows that boost advertiser and creator outcomes.

Responsibilities include optimizing post-training for video generation, analyzing quality factors and defects in AIGC videos, and training reward models from ad delivery data to guide model improvements, with a base salary and RSU opportunities.

Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related discipline.
• Strong publications record in top conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, etc).

Responsibilities

• Optimize the post training of advertising video generation based on the latest generative models and technologies
• Analyze the reasons behind high-quality advertisement videos and the defective parts in AIGC videos via multimodal video understanding.
• Train the reward model based on the ad delivery data of video ads to guide the optimization of the video generation model.

Skills

PhD in CS/ML

Strong publications in top conferences

Education

PhD degree

Job description

TikTok’s Creative AI team under Monetization Technology is seeking a PhD-level researcher to develop cutting-edge Generative AI technologies for ads. The role focuses on enabling automated creative workflows that boost advertiser and creator outcomes.

Responsibilities include optimizing post-training for video generation, analyzing quality factors and defects in AIGC videos, and training reward models from ad delivery data to guide model improvements, with a base salary and RSU opportunities.