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 deploy generative AI models for use cases like image and video generation.
- Apply various techniques to optimize the performance of generative AI model training and serving, as well as improving the model quality.
- Build automation frameworks and tools to ensure high engineering quality and efficiency.
- Work with product teams to ensure smooth product delivery with high standards, prioritize short-term returns and long-term growth.

Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related fields with 5+ years of software development experience.
- 3+ years C/C++/Go/Python experience, proficient in at least one programming language and solid software engineering background.
- Experience in large-scale backend systems with machine learning components; familiar with RPC frameworks and key-value storage systems. Experience dealing with concurrent systems and architectures.
- Great communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in optimizing deep learning model training, tuning and deployment.
- Knowledge in cutting-edge computer vision and deep learning technologies and follow the most recent research advances.