Tech Lead Manager - Large Vision Model Systems

Responsibilities

Team Introduction
The Intelligent Creation - AI Platform team is a team focusing on building advanced end-to-end AI production pipelines, including deep learning model training, optimization, deployment and applications. We provide AI capabilities to empower content creation and consumption on TikTok and serve billions of users.

The team is looking for a strong software engineer leader who can take initiatives and lead teams to design and implement highly efficient engineering systems for generative AI tasks, including but not limited to model training and optimization, model deployment with efficient hardware consumption, and applications such as image/video processing and interactive editing.

Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of AIGC engineers to support TikTok for large vision model engineering including data, inference service and applications.
- Drive the design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems that power vision and generative AI models for TikTok products.
- Collaborate with algorithm and product teams to build and scale large vision and generative AI systems, delivering cutting-edge AIGC capabilities to TikTok products.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- B.S./M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fields with 7+ years of software development experience.
- 5+ years of Python/C/C++/Go experience.
- Experience in designing large-scale service systems or model serving platforms with deep learning components, familiar with RPC frameworks, high-concurrency systems, and distributed architectures.
- With at least 5 years in a leadership or technical lead role.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Familiar with transformer-based and diffusion-based generative models, and understanding of large vision or multimodal foundation model systems.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $208800 - $616000 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.