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Research Scientist, Intelligent Editing and AI Agent (Multimodality) Graduate (Intelligent Creation) -Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program -2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Conduct cutting-edge research in multimodal understanding, vision-language models, and agentic foundation models to build efficient intelligent multimedia creation systems for TikTok users.

Role type

PhD-level research scientist (multimodal generative AI and agents)

Builds

Multimodal foundation models for content creation, image/video generation, and editing

Domain

Generative AI, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

algorithms, Python, C++, large-scale training, reinforcement learning, multimodal understanding, vision-language modeling

Preferred skills

video highlight detection, audio/music understanding, image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA, RLHF, publications in top-tier venues (CVPR, NeurIPS, etc.)

Technologies

Python, C++, agentic foundation models, SFT, RLHF

Responsibilities

Conduct R&D in computer vision and machine learning; explore new AI products; participate in unified modeling for image and video generation; apply agent technology and architecture; optimize tool-calling and long-horizon task capabilities.

Seniority

PhD, research scientist

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