LLM Agents Platform R&D Graduate (AI Innovation Center)-2027 Start (PhD)

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.​

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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.​

Job highlights

Positive team atmosphere, Career growth opportunity, Industry experts

Responsibilities

About The Team:The mission of the TikTok Eng-AI Innovation Center is to explore cutting-edge AGI technologies, including but not limited to LLM, multi-modal LLM (video/image/audio/text/code), etc., to let machine better understand user creations on Tiktok platform. Regarding to video/image/audio/text, enhanced content understanding can bring better user experience of searching, recommendation, and can more accurately identify and defend internet abuse and fraud on our platform. Regarding to code, our developed LLM aims to automatically re-organize/optimize Tiktok codebase, and make the code/coding become more accessible for Tiktok engineers.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

The main job directions include:

1. Research on LLM Agent methodology, how to build better performance/low cost/stability agents;

2. Explore cutting-edge technologies related to LLM Agent engineering platform(AgentOps), covering areas such as RAG, Reasoning, Planning, Toolkits, Multi-Agents Coordination.

3. Construct a high-performance, cost-effective large-model agent service architecture that ensures high service availability.;

4. Explore the application of frontier LLM agents, like multi-modal video agents, multi-agents coordination on Code AI, etc.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

1. Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in computer science or a related discipline.

2. Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, NOI/IOI, Top Coder, Kaggle, etc. are preferred

3. In-depth research and collaboration with researchers from top-tier universities worldwide;

4.Preference will be given to candidates with one or more of the following qualifications:

- Experience in developing and deploying LLM agents.

- Experience in Multiple-modality LLM, Multiple-agents coordination.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Passion for technology, good communication skills and team spirit