Research Scientist, Foundation Model, Speech Understanding

1 month ago

Seattle, United States TikTok Full time
Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Team Intro
The speech, audio and music intelligent (SAMI) team's mission is to empower content understanding, interaction and creation across TikTok and other products using speech & audio related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like speech & audio, music processing, natural language understanding and multimodal deep learning. We are looking for top talents to work on these exciting technologies, integrate them into various TikTok and other products and ultimately bring joy to our global user base

Responsibilities
- Conduct cutting-edge research and development in speech/audio foundation models
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify key research areas and contribute to the development of innovative speech/audio models.
- Work with product development teams to integrate research findings into practical applications for TikTok and other platforms.
- Collaborate on team-driven projects to address complex challenges and enhance the overall effectiveness of the research team.

Qualifications

1. Master's or PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering or related field
2. Experience in one or more areas of machine learning and deep learning, including but not limited to:
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Automatic Speech Translation
- Speech/audio self-supervised learning and foundation models
- Speaker recognition and verification
- Speech emotion recognition
- Multimodal foundation models
- Large Language Model pre-training and fine-tuning

Preferred Qualifications
- Publications in top-tier ML/DL venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI and speech venues such as ICASSP, ASRU, Interspeech
- Deep understanding of Large Language models
- Familiar with distributed computing and large scale model training
- Familiar with deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and Pytorch.
- Familiar with engineering principles and best practices.
- Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, multi-functional environments

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 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 rd.accommodations@tiktok.com

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