TikTok

Research Scientist, Video Generation (Intelligent Creation) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

TikTok  •  San Jose, CA (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2027. As a graduate, you will have the opportunity to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock your full potential. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company. Successful candidates must be able to onboard by the end of 2027. Please clearly state your availability and expected graduation date in your resume.

About the Team

The Intelligent Creation - Global GenAI team focuses on applied research in Generative AI, and delivers intelligent solutions to TikTok, enabling users to make and share creative content in a much easier way. The team has research groups dedicated to multimodal foundation models for content creation, image/video generation and editing, efficient modeling, and world models.

Topic Content:

With rapid advances in AGI and foundation models, multimodal content creation across text, image, and especially video is undergoing a fundamental transformation. This role focuses on building next-generation multimodal and agentic foundation models that enable intelligent, efficient, and end-to-end creative workflows, with a strong emphasis on video generation technologies.

You will work on cutting-edge video generation and editing, and agentic systems, optimizing models through large-scale training and post-training (e.g., SFT, RL). The role also involves designing efficient model architectures and advancing reinforcement learning techniques to improve model capability, scalability, and real-world performance in video and broader creation scenarios.

Responsibilities

- Conduct research and development in generative AI and multimodal models, with a primary focus on video generation.

- Design and build models for creative applications on the TikTok platform, driving end-to-end impact from research to production through cross-functional collaboration.

- Explore new AI-driven product opportunities and contribute to next-generation creative experiences.
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About TikTok

Inspire Creativity and Bring Joy

Industry
Arts & Entertainment
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
Year Founded
Unknown
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