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Engineering Manager - Machine Learning Models

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TikTok

Engineering Manager - Machine Learning Models

San Jose, CA

Responsibilities

Our Business Integrity team has a strong user focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We aim to meet our users' needs with reliable and high-performing platforms and services. We are looking for strong machine learning engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable machine learning models, and partner across disciplines with global teams, in pursuit of excellence. Given the fast growth of TikTok in the world, we are working on building a next-generation content understanding system for TikTok monetization. We are seeking an Engineering Manager experienced in machine learning, which can help us create an ecosystem that rewards high quality user experience and advertiser value.

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Responsibilities
1. Explore foundation models and Generative AI and their application in business, including but not limited to text generation/translation, image-to-text, deepfake, efficient training/inference for AIGC models, etc. Track the cutting-edge industry progress, and proactively plan for technical research.
2. Lead the team to implement AIGC technologies to content understanding of commercial products, such as ads, e-commerce, short videos, and live streaming, and build a new generation of AIGC-based monetization ecology systems.
3. Responsible for the project planning, team building, and cross-team collaboration of the large-scale model algorithm team to build an industry-leading content understanding algorithm team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
1. Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other related fields, with more than 5 years of experience in algorithm research and development, and more than 1 year of experience in team management.
2. Have a solid programming foundation. Be familiar with basic data structures and algorithms.
3. Have a solid algorithm foundation and rich experience in computer vision or NLP-related tasks. Be proficient with AIGC algorithms, and experienced in developing AIGC models at scale from inception to business impact.
4. Be able to keep up with cutting-edge technologies and have a deep insight into industry trends, be responsible for tech design and long-term roadmaps of the entire team.
5. 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.

Preferred Qualifications
1. High-impact publications in the AIGC area at top AI conferences or journals (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI, IJCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, etc.).

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $224000 - $410000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA, USA
Job ID: TikTok-7423511823875655986
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • HSA
    • Life Insurance
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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