Senior Research Engineer: Generative AI & World Models

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking Research Engineers/Scientists for the Vision-Applied Research team in California to build next-generation World Models for Generative AI and multimodal understanding. You will develop methods and infrastructure to train large-scale generative models from massive multimodal data, focusing on long-horizon temporal consistency and realistic physics.

You will create data- generation pipelines, design training for long-context video generation, and push video models toward

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or Master’s in a relevant field with strong research track record.
• Experience in GenAI, multimodal foundation models, or embodied AI.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop large-scale, diverse multimodal data generation pipelines.
• Build training pipelines for long-context interactive video generation.
• Advance video generation for long-horizon temporal consistency and realistic dynamics.

Skills

GenAI research

Multimodal understanding

Collaboration

Education

M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Vision / ML

Tools

Diffusion models

Video synthesis

Job description

TikTok is seeking Research Engineers/Scientists for the Vision-Applied Research team in California to build next-generation World Models for Generative AI and multimodal understanding. You will develop methods and infrastructure to train large-scale generative models from massive multimodal data, focusing on long-horizon temporal consistency and realistic physics.

You will create data- generation pipelines, design training for long-context video generation, and push video models toward