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Senior Research Scientist/Software Engineer, TikTok-Neural Graphics and World Models

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

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

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