Tiktok - San Jose, CA

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Entry Level
San Jose, CA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The TikTok Eng-AI Innovation Center is at the forefront of exploring cutting-edge AGI technologies, including large language models (LLM) and multi-modal LLMs that encompass video, image, audio, text, and code. Our goal is to enhance the understanding of user creations on the TikTok platform, which will improve user experience in searching and recommendations, as well as accurately identify and combat internet abuse and fraud. Additionally, we aim to optimize the TikTok codebase through our developed LLM, making coding more accessible for our engineers. Successful candidates will be expected to drive core technology development for large language model code direction, focusing on improving code comprehension, reasoning, and generation capabilities in real-world production codebases. This role will also involve exploring Code Agent capabilities suitable for actual business production environments, thereby enhancing TikTok's R&D efficiency. Candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of 2025, and we encourage applicants to clearly state their availability and graduation date in their resumes. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and candidates can apply for a maximum of two positions, with consideration given in the order of application.

Responsibilities

  • Drive core technology development for large language model code direction, continuously optimizing code comprehension, reasoning, and generation capabilities.
  • Focus on improving code comprehension, reasoning, and generation capabilities in real-world production codebases, enhancing TikTok service code performance and privacy compliance.
  • Explore Code Agent capabilities suitable for actual business production environments, and improve TikTok R&D efficiency.

Requirements

  • PhD degree required, with top artificial intelligence conference papers in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and other fields.
  • Excellent programming skills, data structure and algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python programming language.
  • Research experience in the field of machine learning, especially in large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence.

Nice-to-haves

  • Excellent problem analysis and solving skills, and passionate about solving challenging problems.
  • Passionate about technology, good communication skills and teamwork spirit.

Benefits

  • 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
  • Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
  • 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
  • 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
  • Mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra.
  • 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.
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