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Tech Lead, Intelligent Editing (Multimodality)

TikTok · Seattle, WA, USA ·

Pay:
$232,560-$427,500/yr
Job type:
Full Time

The Intelligent Creation Team is the AI, special effects, and audio-video creation technology team, responsible for the core technology and business development. It covers a variety of technical fields, including deep learning, computer vision, graphics, speech, recording and editing, special effects, client and server engineering, and provides cutting-edge content understanding, content creation, interactive experience, and consumption capabilities and industry solutions to other business lines within the company and external partners in various forms.

Responsibilities

Conduct cutting-edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning, especially in the areas of multi-modal understanding, vision and language, large-scale training, etc.

Transfer advanced technologies to the company's products.

Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Minimum Qualifications

Masters or PhD in computer science, mathematics, or engineering, with at least 5 years of research and practical experience in computer vision.

Experience in multimodal understanding (e.g., video highlight detection and slicing, audio/music understanding).

Experience in vision and language tasks (e.g., image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA).

Experience with large language models and applying them to downstream tasks (e.g., intelligent editing).

Experience in large-scale training and RLHF.

Experience implementing and optimizing complex, performance-critical systems.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing or tech-leading a team in a fast-paced environment with a record of shipping technologies to products.

Publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc.

Job Information
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $232,560 - $427,500 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

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.

17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire, increasing with tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) candidates: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal or external clients and/or colleagues; appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; exercising sound judgment.

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