Empowering content understanding for TikTok Short Video business by developing advanced LLM/MLLM algorithms and applications to drive measurable business impact and deliver state-of-the-art research outputs
Requirements
- Proven experience in multimodal content understanding, with expertise in large language models (LLMs) and familiarity with cutting-edge progress in the field
- Strong technical foundation in at least one major deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Hands-on experience deploying content understanding solutions in search, advertising, recommendation, or related domains
Responsibilities
- Lead multimodal algorithm development for TikTok’s short-video business, explore applications of multimodal technologies in recommendation systems and other scenarios to improve key business metrics
- Conduct cutting-edge research in multimodal and MLLM technologies, design advanced algorithms to solve business requirements while achieving technical breakthroughs
- Drive engineering deployment and implementation, ensuring model stability, scalability, and efficiency in production environments
- Focus on key areas including (but not limited to): General AI platform design and development, including few-shot/zero-shot on MLLM, AI-labeling, auto prompting, active-learning, continue pretraining and RL
- Integration of content understanding with recommendation systems (e.g., UGC ecosystems, cold start, interest exploration, comment understanding)
- Leveraging multimodal techniques to develop next-generation recommendation systems, such as generative models and end-to-end approaches
Other
- Proactive mindset, strong sense of ownership, excellent communication skills, and ability to collaborate across teams
- Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws
- Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits
- 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
