Tiktok - San Jose, CA
posted 26 days ago
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer focusing on Large Language Models and Generative AI, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our AI-driven applications. Our team is dedicated to developing long-term memory capabilities and enhancing user experiences through personalized chat, search, and recommendation systems. We leverage our deep expertise in artificial intelligence to create advanced algorithms that can understand, learn, and predict, significantly improving user interactions with our platform. In this role, you will be responsible for setting the direction and goals for a sizable team, focusing on project impact, machine learning system design, and excellence in machine learning practices. You will adapt standard machine learning methods to exploit modern parallel environments, such as distributed clusters and GPUs, and re-evaluate the trade-offs of existing features and systems. Your leadership will guide the team in developing best practices and influencing the engineering culture, while also serving as a go-to person for resolving complex online and production performance issues. You will develop highly scalable classifiers and tools, leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models. Additionally, you will be involved in suggesting, collecting, and synthesizing requirements to create an effective feature roadmap, while coding deliverables in collaboration with the engineering team. This position requires a strong foundation in software engineering and a passion for pushing the boundaries of what language model-based applications can achieve.