Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineer, Generative AI
Seattle, Washington
Employer: TikTok
Industry: R&D
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
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
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.
Team Introduction
The Intelligent Creation - Vision Engineering team is a team focusing on building advanced end-to-end production pipelines with core technologies including generative AI, intelligent editing and content understanding. By exploiting AI model training, optimization, deployment and applications, we provide cutting-edge AI capabilities to empower content creation and consumption on TikTok and serve billions of users.
We are looking for strong tech lead software engineers to drive the design and implementation of our generative AI systems consisting of model training and optimization, deployment with efficient hardware consumption, and applications to user-facing products for image/video processing and interactive editing.
Responsibilities
- Design, architect and implement backend systems to apply generative AI models to TikTok products.
- Build automation frameworks and tools to ensure high engineering quality and efficiency.
- Lead project planning and execution, responsible for the overall success of the project direction.
- Work with product teams to ensure smooth product delivery with high standards, prioritize short-term returns and long-term growth.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- B.S./M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fields with 7+ years of software development experience.
- 5+ years of Python/C/C++/Go experience, proficient in at least one programming language and solid software engineering design skills.
- Experience in large-scale backend systems with deep learning components, familiar with RPC frameworks, experience in dealing with concurrent systems and architectures.
- Great communication and teamwork skills.
- Preferring experience in generative model training, tuning and optimizations, such as text-to-image/video/3D generations.
- Knowledge in cutting-edge AIGC technologies and follow the most recent AIGC advancements, such as transformers and diffusion models.
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 terra.vo@tiktok.com
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
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.
Team Introduction
The Intelligent Creation - Vision Engineering team is a team focusing on building advanced end-to-end production pipelines with core technologies including generative AI, intelligent editing and content understanding. By exploiting AI model training, optimization, deployment and applications, we provide cutting-edge AI capabilities to empower content creation and consumption on TikTok and serve billions of users.
We are looking for strong tech lead software engineers to drive the design and implementation of our generative AI systems consisting of model training and optimization, deployment with efficient hardware consumption, and applications to user-facing products for image/video processing and interactive editing.
Responsibilities
- Design, architect and implement backend systems to apply generative AI models to TikTok products.
- Build automation frameworks and tools to ensure high engineering quality and efficiency.
- Lead project planning and execution, responsible for the overall success of the project direction.
- Work with product teams to ensure smooth product delivery with high standards, prioritize short-term returns and long-term growth.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- B.S./M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fields with 7+ years of software development experience.
- 5+ years of Python/C/C++/Go experience, proficient in at least one programming language and solid software engineering design skills.
- Experience in large-scale backend systems with deep learning components, familiar with RPC frameworks, experience in dealing with concurrent systems and architectures.
- Great communication and teamwork skills.
- Preferring experience in generative model training, tuning and optimizations, such as text-to-image/video/3D generations.
- Knowledge in cutting-edge AIGC technologies and follow the most recent AIGC advancements, such as transformers and diffusion models.
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 terra.vo@tiktok.com
Created: 2024-06-12
Reference: A13318
Country: United States
State: Washington
City: Seattle
ZIP: 98109
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