Senior Research Scientist/Software Engineer, TikTok-Neural Graphics and World Models
Core
Develop AI models, neural representations, data strategies, and evaluation methods for neural graphics systems, generative modeling, world models, 3D modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering.
Role type
Senior Research Scientist / Software Engineer (Neural Graphics & World Models)
Builds
Interactive graphics and world-generation systems, real-time engine capabilities
Domain
Computer Graphics, Generative AI, Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine learning, 3D modeling, generative AI, world models, animation, simulation, rendering, model architecture design, distributed training, PyTorch, JAX
Preferred skills
Publications at top-tier conferences, novel model architectures, multimodal alignment, reinforcement learning, real-time inference optimization
Technologies
PyTorch, JAX, variational autoencoders, latent tokenizers, diffusion models, flow-matching models, diffusion transformers, autoregressive models, multimodal transformers
Responsibilities
Lead research directions in neural graphics and world models; Develop, train, and evaluate AI models for interactive graphics; Define data and evaluation strategies; Build research prototypes and collaborate with engineering teams; Analyze results and translate findings into development steps; Mentor team members
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC