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.

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 ByteDance products and ultimately bring joy to our global user base!

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2024. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to a start date before the end of 2024. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.

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

• Ph.D. graduate with a background in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a 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
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

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 earlycareers.accommodations@tiktok.com.

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