Tech Lead, Intelligent Editing (Multimodality)
TikTok
Seattle, WA · Posted November 13, 2026
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About the job
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. - Transfer advanced technologies to the company's products; - Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.
Minimum Qualifications - Masters or PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering engineering with at least 5 years 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. - Experienced in implementing and optimizing complex and performance-critical systems. - Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience in managing or tech-leading a team in a fast-paced environment with record of shipping technologies to products. - Preferring candidates with publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc.