Responsibilities
About the Team
Our team's mission is to empower content understanding in TikTok businesses. Computer vision and natural language processing are important dimensions in video content understanding. We are working on cutting-edge content understanding topics including weakly-supervised learning, few-shot classification, video tagging, multi-task learning, multi-lingual learning, multi-modality pretraining, etc. As a content understanding team on the business side, we try to succeed in both achieving business metric gains (recommendation metrics), and also producing state-of-the-art research outputs.
Responsibilities
- Conducting development and research on cutting-edge CV, NLP, multi-modality and recommendation topics
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- Following SoTA progress in relevant fields and transform the ideas into production
- Life-cycle model development, from model training, deployment, maintenance, till its use in business scenarios.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience in one of more areas of computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning
- Solid knowledge and experience with at least one major deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, MXNet, Caffe/Caffe2).
- Familiar with deep neural network architectures such as transformer/SSM/CNN/RNN/LSTM etc.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Degree in computer science, electrical engineering or related fields
- Authors with publications in top-tier venues such as SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $126000 - $221760 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.