Job Description

TikTok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require TikTok's sponsorship of a visa.

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 At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for this future position in 2023. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to all TikTok/ByteDance jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

About the Team The Vision Technology team works on the advance state of the art in technical areas that are important to the firm's current and future business. We are directly responsible for critical products and services and participate in finding solutions to the challenges we face as an enterprise. With world-leading researchers on our side, we also aim to become an educational hub for the brightest students and help them achieve their potential. We take pride in being an active part of the academic community through publishing papers, giving talks and attending conferences.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for business content understanding of ads, e-commerce, short video, live streaming, and other related content understanding, including images, text, video, audio, etc.

• Be responsible for data mining, feature engineering, and building machine learning models to build monetization ecology.

• Optimize model computation efficiency and improve model stability when facing tens of millions of business data and restricted resources.

• Based on billion scale business data, explore and implement various cutting-edge technologies, such as pre-training, self-supervised learning, few-shot learning, etc.
  

Qualifications

• Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline

• Have a solid foundation with common machine learning and deep learning related techniques and algorithms (e.g. classification, clustering, regression, etc.). Be proficient with at least one deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow).

• Be familiar with computer vision related tasks. Have rich experience in at least one aspect, such as image/video classification, object detection, image/video retrieval, OCR, image segmentation, etc.

• Related experience in at least one of the following areas is a plus:

i. Be familiar with NLP-related tasks. Have experience in at least one aspect, such as text classification, semantic analysis, sentiment analysis, NER, etc. ii. Be familiar with audio-related tasks. Have experience in at least one aspect, such as ASR, AED, LID, etc. iii. Be familiar with multimodal machine learning, large-scale pre-training, etc. iv. Be familiar with the theory and application of graph neural networks, knowledge graphs, and have relevant experience; v. Be familiar with model acceleration techniques such as pruning, quantization, distillation, etc.; Have relevant experience in deploying models using frameworks such as TensorRT.

• Solid programming foundation. Be familiar with basic data structures and algorithms.

• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, logical thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills. Maintain curiosity about new things, and have a strong sense of responsibility, integrity and reliability.

• Having published papers in top AI conferences or journals is a plus.
  

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.

By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com.