Responsibilities

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
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.

Team Intro
The Speech, Audio, and Music Intelligence (SAMI) team's mission is to empower content interaction and creation across TikTok products using speech & audio related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like speech & audio, music processing, natural language understanding, and multimodal deep learning. We are looking for top talents to work on these exciting technologies, integrate them into various ByteDance products, and ultimately bring joy to our global user base!

Responsibilities
• Conduct cutting-edge machine learning research and development in music understanding and generation.
• Transfer advanced technologies to ByteDance products.
• Explore new products with music intelligence technology at its core.

Qualifications

Qualifications:
Masters or PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or related field;
• Experience in one or more areas of deep learning and music intelligence, including but not limited to:
- Deep generative models
- Representation learning
- Sequence classification
- Music information retrieval and source separation
- Speech recognition and synthesis
- Natural language processing
Preferred Qualifications
• Publications in top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, ACL, EMNLP, ISMIR.
• Familiar with deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and PyTorch.
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in Python and C/C++.
• Familar with large-scale training and data processing.
• Familiar with engineering principles and best practices.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, multi-functional environment.

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 rd.accommodations@tiktok.com