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 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 products and ultimately bring joy to our global user base!

Responsibilities:
- Contribute cutting-edge research to TikTok product evolution (e.g., TikTok, CapCut) to impact billions of users worldwide.
- Lead research to advance science and technology in audio processing and generation (e.g., Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion, Audio Codec Learning, Audio Language Modeling, etc.)
- Research, model, design, develop and evaluate novel machine learning models and algorithms.
- Collaborate with globally based researchers and engineering teams in developing machine learning models and algorithms.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science, machine learning, or similar fields.
- At least three years of relevant industry or research experience
- Good knowledge of theoretical and empirical research in addressing research problems
- Solid knowledge and experience with at least one popular deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and familiarity with deep neural network architectures
- Good presentation and communication skills
- Experience in both neural and non-neural, classical machine learning models and algorithms

Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in one or more of the following fields: speech synthesis or recognition, natural language processing, computer vision, generative models
- Strong first-author publications record in top AI conferences or journals(e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICASSP)
- Proficient in C / C + +, Python, and shell programming languages, and have a deep understanding of data structure and algorithm design.
- Work or internship experience in an AI research organization

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