Research Engineer - Singapore - TIKTOK PTE. LTD.

Description

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 TnS-Live-Algo Team

Our algorithm team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art computer vision and multimodality models and algorithms to protect our platform and users from the content and behaviors that violate community guidelines and related local regulations. With the continuous efforts from our team, TikTok Livestream is able to provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly self-motivated research engineer to join our algo team in Singapore. In our team, you will have the opportunity to participate in the development of the cutting-edge content understanding model to help improve the recognition ability of violated content in TikTok Livestream, and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously. The ideal candidate should be experienced in building a computer vision model or multimodality model and have a very strong coding ability in Pytorch/Tensorflow

Responsibilities

Develop computer vision model or multimodality model to recognize violation content in TikTok Livestream

Explore cutting-edge multimodal or computer vision large models (CLIP, COCA, ALBEF, BLIP, Flamingo, ViT-G, ViT-22B, EVA-enormous, etc)

Explore the application of LLM in our business scenarios, like pre-training, zero-shot/ few-shot learning, hard case mining, etc

Continuously optimize the training framework to better adapt to the training of large models

Qualifications

1. Major in computer science or a related technical discipline

2. At least 1-3 years of experience in at least one of the following areas: computer vision, multimodality, LLM

3. Be proficient with at least one deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)

4. Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, logical thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills

5. Published papers in the top AI conferences or journals is a plus, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, IJCV, etc

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.