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Tech Lead, Research Scientist, Generative AI

TikTok

San Jose, CA · Posted November 13, 2026

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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, shooting 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 generative AI (e.g. image, video, or 3d generation). • Transfer advanced technologies to the company's products; • Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Minimum Qualifications • 3+ years of research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision, including but not limited to • Generative model customization and personalization, especially diffusion models and GANs • Multimodal and controlled image and video generation by text, audio, video and other modalities. • Preferring candidates with publications in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia, etc • Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python. • Work and collaborate well with team members. • Ability to work independently.