Tech Lead, Intelligent Editing (Multimodality)

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 242,000 - 456,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a senior researcher for the Intelligent Creation Team, driving AI, vision, audio-video creation technologies and interfacing with product teams to bring cutting-edge capabilities to market.

You will tackle multimodal understanding, large-scale training, and language-model applications to intelligent editing, with opportunities to ship technologies to products and collaborate across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in computer science, mathematics, or engineering with 5+ years of research and practical experience in computer vision.
• Experience in multimodal understanding (video highlight detection/slicing, audio/music understanding).
• Experience in vision and language (image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA).
• Experience with language models and applications to downstream tasks like intelligent editing.
• Experience in large-scale training and RLHF.
• Ability to implement and optimize performance-critical systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge R&D in CV/ML, focusing on multimodal understanding and large-scale training.
• Transfer advanced technologies to TikTok products.
• Explore new AI-centric products at TikTok with core technology leadership.

Skills

Computer vision

Multimodal understanding

Large-scale training

Vision and language

Language models

RLHF

Complex systems optimization

Analytical problem solving

Team leadership experience

Education

Masters or PhD in CS/Math/Engineering

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team

The Intelligent Creation Team is the AI, special effects, and audio-video creation technology team, responsible for the core technology and business development. It covers a variety of technical fields, including deep learning, computer vision, graphics, speech, recording and editing, special effects, client and server engineering, and provides cutting-edge content understanding, content creation, interactive experience, and consumption capabilities and industry solutions to other business lines within the company and external partners in various forms.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning, especially in the areas of multi-modal understanding, vision and language, large-scale training, etc.
• Transfer advanced technologies to the company's products;
• Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering engineering with at least 5 years of research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision, including but not limited to:
• Experience in multimodal understanding, such as video highlight detection and slicing, audio/music understanding, etc.
• Experience in vision and language, such as image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA, and other related fields.
• Experience with language models and apply them in various downstream tasks, especially for intelligent editing.
• Experience in large-scale training and RLHF.
• Experienced in implementing and optimizing complex and performance-critical systems.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing or tech-leading a team in a fast-paced environment with record of shipping technologies to products.
• Preferring candidates with publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $241680 - $456000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
3. Exercising sound judgment.