Software Engineer, Mobile Video

Responsibilities

About TikTok

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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, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us :

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity;

to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together.

That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve. Join Us.

About the Team

TikTok's Intelligent Creation Audio / Video (IC-AV) team delivers the core video production technologies across mobile platforms, enabling hundreds of millions of TikTok creators to tell their stories, express their emotions, and convey their knowledge in the format of short-form videos.

We are looking for enthusiastic mobile developers at various levels of experience to work on TikTok's core technologies of video filming and editing.

The technical stack covers various camera features, nonlinear editing on mobile devices, UGC creation workflow, and a lot more.

In this role, you will optimize the performance of TikTok's next-generation video technologies, collaborate with external mobile SoC / device / service partners, and deliver the best user experience on a huge variety of mobile platforms for TikTok creators around the world.

Responsibilities

• Develop new video features including but not limited to camera operation, video recording, video editing, and video publishing to support business requirements from TikTok family of video products.
• Profile and optimize video performance and video quality, and refine user experience in each and every possible video production workflow for TikTok family of video products.
• Follow up on TikTok customer feedback, resolve customer issues promptly and bring creativity and joy to millions of TikTok creators around the world.
• Collaborate with industrial partners to turn the latest mobile audio / video processing capabilities into the best UGC creator experience in the industry.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor or above degree in a technical field in such as computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent years of experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structure & algorithms with good problem solving skills.
• Excellent coding skills with one or more programming languages such as Java / Objective-C, C / C++ or Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Android / iOS mobile development for applications or frameworks.
• Experience and knowledge of one or more domains below :
• Camera operations such as auto exposure, autofocus, auto white balance, and HDR image / video capture.
• Audio / video media processing such scaling, filtering, and compression with a media framework such as FFMpeg.
• OpenGL graphics processing such as texture rendering, vertex shading and fragment shading.
• Experience with video editing and publishing operations such as cutting, filtering, transitioning, adding effects using apps such as TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Youtube.
• Open minded, great communication, eager to learn and always passionate about turning cutting-edge technologies into practical use cases.

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.

If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Job Information :

Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $113500 - $250000 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life.

We offer the following benefits to eligible employees :

• We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match.
• As well as Dental, Vision, Short / Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are : 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.

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

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