TikTok
Applied Scientist - AIGC Development
TikTok - San Jose, California, United States, 95199
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TikTok's Data Cycling Center Team focuses on building content, understanding, and providing data-driven solutions for both internal stakeholders and tools for external users. We focus on both delivering human understanding and direct content understanding helping solve large impact problems from that understanding.
About the role The Applied Scientist will assume a hands-on and multi-faceted role within our international organization, navigating through complex data labeling processes and extensive stakeholder management to comprehend and address diverse needs. The Applied Scientist will be pivotal in amplifying the efficacy of our data labeling processes, driving both strategic and operational advancements within the team.
Responsibilities - Advanced Project Management: Direct and coordinate projects, orchestrating efforts across a large, interdisciplinary team of researchers, product managers, and data labelers, ensuring timely and efficient execution of tasks. - Clarification and Simplification of Product Requirements: Diligently comprehend product needs, drive clear communication, and decompose technical tasks into more manageable units, ensuring a smooth execution path. - Machine Learning Model Development: Conceptualize and develop advanced machine learning models aimed at optimizing the output of labelers, focusing on enhancing both the speed and quality of the labeling process. - Collaborative Experimentation and Documentation: Work in tandem with various teams to formulate meticulous experiment plans, documenting results with utmost precision, and patiently addressing inquiries from both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors. - Five years of experience building complex, large-scale NLP (Natural Language Processing) systems - Communication Mastery: Demonstrates exceptional written and spoken communication prowess, with a proven ability to effectively interface with business stakeholders and international teams, conveying complex, data-driven narratives clearly and compellingly. - Strategic Interpersonal Skills: Displays formidable interpersonal skills, embodying an ability to seize new opportunities, be able to set product directions strategically, ignite innovative ideas, and marshal support to bring products from conceptualization to realization. - Practical ML Solutions Development: Boasts significant, hands-on experience in crafting Machine Learning solutions that address real-world business challenges, paired with proficiency in ML fundamentals such as diverse algorithm paradigms (including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning), evaluation methodologies, optimization techniques, and sampling strategies. - Python Proficiency: Possesses intermediate-to-advanced skills in Python programming, showcasing the ability to develop and implement robust data science solutions. - SQL and Data Modeling Expertise: Demonstrates intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in SQL, databases, and general data modeling, ensuring structured, efficient, and scalable data management, and leveraging data to inform strategic decision-making.
Preferred qualifications - PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors - 4 years of experience working cross-functionally to successfully deliver complex projects
About TikTok TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok Accommodation TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information 【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $144000 - $329333 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. Seniority level
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About the role The Applied Scientist will assume a hands-on and multi-faceted role within our international organization, navigating through complex data labeling processes and extensive stakeholder management to comprehend and address diverse needs. The Applied Scientist will be pivotal in amplifying the efficacy of our data labeling processes, driving both strategic and operational advancements within the team.
Responsibilities - Advanced Project Management: Direct and coordinate projects, orchestrating efforts across a large, interdisciplinary team of researchers, product managers, and data labelers, ensuring timely and efficient execution of tasks. - Clarification and Simplification of Product Requirements: Diligently comprehend product needs, drive clear communication, and decompose technical tasks into more manageable units, ensuring a smooth execution path. - Machine Learning Model Development: Conceptualize and develop advanced machine learning models aimed at optimizing the output of labelers, focusing on enhancing both the speed and quality of the labeling process. - Collaborative Experimentation and Documentation: Work in tandem with various teams to formulate meticulous experiment plans, documenting results with utmost precision, and patiently addressing inquiries from both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors. - Five years of experience building complex, large-scale NLP (Natural Language Processing) systems - Communication Mastery: Demonstrates exceptional written and spoken communication prowess, with a proven ability to effectively interface with business stakeholders and international teams, conveying complex, data-driven narratives clearly and compellingly. - Strategic Interpersonal Skills: Displays formidable interpersonal skills, embodying an ability to seize new opportunities, be able to set product directions strategically, ignite innovative ideas, and marshal support to bring products from conceptualization to realization. - Practical ML Solutions Development: Boasts significant, hands-on experience in crafting Machine Learning solutions that address real-world business challenges, paired with proficiency in ML fundamentals such as diverse algorithm paradigms (including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning), evaluation methodologies, optimization techniques, and sampling strategies. - Python Proficiency: Possesses intermediate-to-advanced skills in Python programming, showcasing the ability to develop and implement robust data science solutions. - SQL and Data Modeling Expertise: Demonstrates intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in SQL, databases, and general data modeling, ensuring structured, efficient, and scalable data management, and leveraging data to inform strategic decision-making.
Preferred qualifications - PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors - 4 years of experience working cross-functionally to successfully deliver complex projects
About TikTok TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
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