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.

About the team
The mission of the TikTok Eng-AI Innovation Center is to explore cutting-edge AGI technologies, including but not limited to LLM, multi-modal LLM (video/image/audio/text/code), etc., to let machine better understand user creations on TikTok platform. Regarding to video/image/audio/text, enhanced content understanding can bring better user experience of searching, recommendation, and can more accurately identify and defend internet abuse and fraud on our platform. Regarding to code, our developed LLM aims to automatically re-organize/optimize TikTok codebase, and make the code/coding become more accessible for TikTok engineers.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2024. Internships at TikTok aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at TikTok.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to the following internship cycle
below: -
1. Off cycle / Credit bearing - Anytime in 2024

We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit in either internship period. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).

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


Responsibilities:
- Research on LLM Agent paradigms in order to build better performance/low cost/stability agents
- Explore cutting-edge technologies related to LLM Agent engineering platform(AgentOps), covering areas such as RAG, Reasoning, Planning, Toolkits, Multi-Agents Coordination
- Construct a high-performance, cost-effective large-model agent service architecture that ensures high service availability
- Explore the application of frontier LLM agents, like multi-modal video agents, multi-agents coordination on Code AI, etc.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification
- PhD or Master with Computer Science or related fields, with 2+ years of research and development experience
- Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, NOI/IOI, Top Coder, Kaggle, etc. are preferred
- In-depth research experience in Machine Learning, with a particular emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI

Preferred Qualification
- Excellent ability to analyze and solve problems, and be passionate about solving challenging problems
- Passion for technology, good communication skills
- Ideally able to commit 4-5 days/week for minimally 3 months
- Preference will be given to candidates with one or more of the following qualifications:
1. Experience in developing and deploying LLM agents (Multi-modality Agent, Multi-agents coordination).
2. Experience with LLMs, virtual LLMs pre-training/CT/SFT/RL and evaluation algorithms in NLP/Video/Image; related frameworks (FSDP, DeepSpeed, PEFT).


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.

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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com.