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 Introduction
The Intelligent Creation - AI Platform team is a team focusing on building advanced end-to-end AI production pipelines, including deep learning model training, optimization, deployment and applications. We provide AI capabilities to empower content creation and consumption on TikTok and serve billions of users.

The team is looking for strong software engineers who can take initiatives to design and implement highly efficient engineering systems for generative AI tasks, including but not limited to model training and optimization, model deployment with efficient hardware consumption, and applications such as image/video processing and interactive editing.

Responsibilities
- Design, architect and implement backend systems to deploy generative AI models for use cases like image and video generation.
- Apply various techniques to optimize the performance of generative AI model training and serving, as well as improving the model quality.
- Build automation frameworks and tools to ensure high engineering quality and efficiency.
- Work with product teams to ensure smooth product delivery with high standards, prioritize short-term returns and long-term growth.

Qualifications

Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related fields with 5+ years of software development experience.
- 3+ years C/C++/Go/Python experience, proficient in at least one programming language and solid software engineering background.
- Experience in large-scale backend systems with machine learning components; familiar with RPC frameworks and key-value storage systems. Experience dealing with concurrent systems and architectures.
- Great communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Skills
- Experience in optimizing deep learning model training, tuning and deployment.
- Knowledge in cutting-edge computer vision and deep learning technologies and follow the most recent research advances.

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.