Research Scientist, Intelligent Editing (Multimodality)

Responsibilities

Why TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform.

We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes.

Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility.

Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

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

1. 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.

2. Transfer advanced technologies to ByteDance products;

3. Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Qualifications

Qualifications

1. At least 1 year 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.

2. Preferring candidates with publications in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc

3. Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in C / C++ and Python.

4. Work and collaborate well with team members.

5. Ability to work independently.

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 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.

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