Senior Research Scientist, Intelligent Editing (Multimodality)

TikTok

San Jose, California, United States of America Posted October 26, 2026

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About the team
The Intelligent Creation Team is the AI, special effects, and audio-video creation technology team, responsible for the core technology and business development. It covers a variety of technical fields, including deep learning, computer vision, graphics, speech, recording and editing, special effects, client and server engineering, and provides cutting-edge content understanding, content creation, interactive experience, and consumption capabilities and industry solutions to other business lines within the company and external partners in various forms.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct cutting-edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning, especially in the areas of multi-modal understanding, vision and language, large-scale training, etc.
  • Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Minimum Qualifications
At least 3 year of research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision, including but not limited to:

  • Experience in multimodal understanding, such as video highlight detection and slicing, audio/music understanding, etc.
  • Experience in vision and language, such as image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA, and other related fields.
  • Experience with language models and apply them in various downstream tasks, especially for intelligent editing.
  • Experience in large-scale training and RLHF.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Preferring candidates with publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc
  • Highly competent in algorithms and programming;
  • Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python.
Required Skills
editing business development deep learning computer vision machine learning artificial intelligence C++ Python
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