Tech Lead: Generative AI & AR Agent Systems

TikTok

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 218,000 - 480,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Tech Lead AI Software Engineer for Creative AI Agents in San Jose. You will define the technical vision and roadmap for TikTok's AR Effect Generation AI system and own end-to-end architecture from design to deployment.

You will lead research and productization of generative and agentic AI techniques, collaborate with product, design, engineering, and AI teams, and mentor engineers while balancing quality, latency, safety, and user impact.

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical vision and roadmap for TikTok's AR Effect Generation AI system.
  • Own the end-to-end architecture and development of key AI Effect Generation system, from problem discovery and technical design to implementation, rollout, and long-term maintenance; across data collection, context engineering, evaluation, and product integration.
  • Lead the research and productization of generative and agentic AI techniques for visual, interactive, and 3D content creation, integrating multimodal models with graphics engines and creator workflows while balancing quality, controllability, latency, reliability, safety, and delivery speed.
  • Establish robust experimentation, evaluation, and observability practices—including offline metrics, staged rollouts, A/B experiments, tracing, and quality monitoring, use online results to guide future research and product decisions.
  • Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and AI/ML partners to translate ambiguous creator and platform needs into clear technical strategies, align stakeholders on trade-offs, and deliver measurable user impact.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and researchers, identify reusable abstractions across projects, raise engineering and research standards, and foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and innovation.

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Tech Lead AI Software Engineer for Creative AI Agents in San Jose. You will define the technical vision and roadmap for TikTok's AR Effect Generation AI system and own end-to-end architecture from design to deployment.

You will lead research and productization of generative and agentic AI techniques, collaborate with product, design, engineering, and AI teams, and mentor engineers while balancing quality, latency, safety, and user impact.

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