Research Scientist - Generative AI Graduate (Intelligent Creation) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

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San Jose, California, United States of America Posted October 25, 2026

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Job Description

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly 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.

Responsibilities

  • Develop large-scale, diverse, and interactive multi-modal data generation pipeline.
  • Develop training pipeline for long-context interactive video generation models.
  • Advance video generation models to capture long-horizon temporal consistency, realistic physical dynamics, object interactions, and causal relationships from large-scale multi-modal data.
  • Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Individuals who are completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills
  • Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in Python/C++.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experiences in broad GenAI, multimodal foundation models, or Embodied AI areas.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts and collaborate effectively within cross-functional research teams
  • Proven track record of first-author publications in prestigious venues including CVPR, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, and ICML
Required Skills
onboarding editing artificial intelligence software development collaboration Python C++ cross-functional collaboration
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