Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineer, Generative AI

$199,500 - $340,100/Yr

Tiktok - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Seattle, WA

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About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The Intelligent Creation - Vision Engineering team is focused on building advanced end-to-end production pipelines utilizing core technologies such as generative AI, intelligent editing, and content understanding. By leveraging AI model training, optimization, deployment, and applications, we provide cutting-edge AI capabilities that empower content creation and consumption on TikTok, serving billions of users worldwide. We are seeking a strong tech lead software engineer to drive the design and implementation of our generative AI systems. This role involves leading a team of over 10 members in designing and implementing generative AI solutions that support AI product applications. The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting backend systems that apply generative AI models to TikTok products, building automation frameworks and tools to ensure high engineering quality and efficiency, and leading project planning and execution to ensure the overall success of project direction. Collaboration with product teams is essential to ensure smooth product delivery with high standards, balancing short-term returns with long-term growth. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of AI technology and contribute to the innovative landscape of TikTok's offerings.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect and implement backend systems to apply generative AI models to TikTok products.
• Build automation frameworks and tools to ensure high engineering quality and efficiency.
• Lead project planning and execution, responsible for the overall success of the project direction.
• Work with product teams to ensure smooth product delivery with high standards, prioritize short-term returns and long-term growth.

Requirements

• B.S./M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fields with 5+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of Python/C/C++/Go experience, proficient in at least one programming language and solid software engineering design skills.
• Experience in large-scale backend systems with deep learning components, familiar with RPC frameworks, experience in dealing with concurrent systems and architectures.
• Great communication and teamwork skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in generative model training, tuning and optimizations, such as text-to-image/video/3D generations.
• Knowledge in cutting-edge AIGC technologies and follow the most recent AIGC advancements, such as transformers and diffusion models.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
• 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 EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.