Graduate Research Scientist: GenAI World Models

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 254,000 - 588,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

TikTok Inc. seeks graduates to join the Intelligent Creation - Global GenAI team in 2027, focusing on applied research in Generative AI and multimodal content creation. You will work on post‑training, model iteration, and agentic foundations to advance video and image generation at scale.

Ideal candidates have a PhD in a related field, strong Python/C++ coding skills, and proven collaboration abilities. We offer a rich research environment with cross‑functional teams and opportunities to

Qualifications

• PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.
• Strong coding skills in Python and C++.
• Experience in GenAI, multimodal models, or Embodied AI is preferred.
• Publications in top venues (CVPR/ICLR/NeurIPS/SIGGRAPH/ICML) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop large‑scale, diverse, and interactive multi‑modal data generation pipeline.
• Develop training pipeline for long‑context interactive video generation models.
• Advance video generation models to capture long‑horizon temporal consistency and causal relationships.
• Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Skills

PhD in CS/CE/Software Development

Algorithms

Python

C++

Collaboration

Education

PhD in CS/CE/Software Development

Tools

Deep Learning

Job description

TikTok Inc. seeks graduates to join the Intelligent Creation - Global GenAI team in 2027, focusing on applied research in Generative AI and multimodal content creation. You will work on post‑training, model iteration, and agentic foundations to advance video and image generation at scale.

Ideal candidates have a PhD in a related field, strong Python/C++ coding skills, and proven collaboration abilities. We offer a rich research environment with cross‑functional teams and opportunities to