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.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us 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.

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.

About the Team
Our team's mission is to empower TikTok users to turn creativity into reality via videos. We build the core video creation product to support tens of millions of TikTok creators every day. All the viral props and effects you find on TikTok are developed by us, via close collaboration with TikTok AR effects and multimedia teams. Our team focuses on the research of next-gen technologies such as AIGC. Our mission is to make cutting-edge AI technology accessible, and bring possibilities to all TikTok users.

About the Role
We are looking for a highly motivated research engineer to join our computer vision team in Singapore. In this role, you will work with a team of leading researchers and experienced engineers working in the AIGC domain. You will be responsible for building & maintaining data pipelines, writing bug-free machine learning code, and implementing the sciences behind the systems. The ideal candidate should be experienced in processing large datasets (e.g. Images, videos, texts), and have past experience in building computer vision and/or generative models using pytorch framework, and to be comfortable working with large-scale distributed machine learning training pipelines.

Responsibilities
• Develop and improve current data loading and processing pipelines on a very large scale (e.g. On PBs scale)
• Work along with researchers and engineers to help improve current generative modeling pipelines
• Be self-motivated to come up with new solutions that can improve modeling outputs, training pipelines and datasets
• Be responsible for maintaining and improving codebases. Attend research & paper reading groups for ideas brainstorming

Qualifications

• Final year or recent graduate with a background in computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, data science or other related disciplines
• Strong programming skills
• Background in computer vision, including experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch
• Experience with image and video processing techniques and libraries
• Experience with computer vision modeling and training
• Experience in processing large-scale datasets, including images, videos or texts
• Experience in building large-scale distributed machine learning systems will be a plus
• Self-motivated and driven to learn & try new things (e.g. open sourced github repos), especially in AIGC



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.