Senior Research Engineer, AI Agents for Creation Tools

- Design agent architectures for planning, reasoning, memory, and multimodal interaction
- Build training, evaluation, benchmarking, and experimentation pipelines for agent systems
- Integrate large language models and generative models into end-to-end agent workflows
- Prototype new agent capabilities and validate them in real user scenarios
- Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize research-driven systems

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 3+ years of related industry experience
- Strong background in AI agents, LLM systems, or multimodal AI
- Experience with model training, evaluation, and experimentation workflows
- Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or similar languages
- Ability to translate research ideas into practical systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Research or applied experience with tool-use agents, coding agents, or autonomous task-execution agents
- Experience studying or improving agent behaviors such as tool selection, planning with tools, code-based execution, or error recovery
- Experience applying AI to creative domains such as camera effects, content creation, or video
- Publications or applied research contributions in agentic or generative systems

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187040 - $359720 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

Job ID: TikTok-7600668597485160709

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-02T19:41:10