Graduate Research Scientist – Generative Ads

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

Job summary

TikTok's Creative AI team under Monetization Technology seeks graduates to advance generative AI across text, image, video, and landing pages to improve creative efficiency for advertisers, agencies, and creators.

Successful candidates should join and commit to onboarding by year-end, with opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and grow within a dynamic AI research environment.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in CS/ML or related field
• Strong publications record in top conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR)
• Hands-on experience with multimodality foundation models is a plus

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

Multimodal AI

Research publications

Video understanding

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related discipline

Job description

TikTok's Creative AI team under Monetization Technology seeks graduates to advance generative AI across text, image, video, and landing pages to improve creative efficiency for advertisers, agencies, and creators.

Successful candidates should join and commit to onboarding by year-end, with opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and grow within a dynamic AI research environment.