Senior Software Engineer - Generative AI (San Jose)

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 strong software engineers who can take initiatives 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
- Design, architect and implement backend systems to apply generative AI models to TikTok products.
- Build automation frameworks and tools to ensure high engineering quality and efficiency.
- Lead project planning and execution, responsible for the overall success of the project direction.
- Work with product teams to ensure smooth product delivery with high standards, prioritize short-term returns and long-term growth.

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, proficient in at least one programming language and solid software engineering design skills.
- Experience in large-scale backend systems with deep learning components, familiar with RPC frameworks, experience in dealing with concurrent systems and architectures.
- Great communication and teamwork skills.
- Preferring experience in generative model training, tuning and optimizations, such as text-to-image/video/3D generations.
- Knowledge in cutting-edge AIGC technologies and follow the most recent AIGC advancements, such as transformers and diffusion models.