About the team
Welcome to the content understanding and generation team of e-commerce algorithms, where we spearhead multi-modality models on visual understanding and visual generation. Our team is dedicated to enhancing clients' shopping experience by developing AIGC algorithms in the field of e-commerce, such as e-commerce content understanding and trendings, product creativity generation, generation and optimization of product materials, virtual try-on, e-commerce video generation and editing. We aim to provide the complete AI solution for the e-commerce industry, and use technology to subvert the entire industry chain.

Responsibilities
- Responsible for exploring cutting-edge technologies such as computer vision, AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content), and multimodal machine learning in the field of content commerce.
- Responsible for applying technologies such as AIGC in the field of content commerce, empowering various aspects of e-commerce such as product creativity generation, generation and optimization of product materials, virtual try-on, e-commerce video generation and editing.
- Responsible for optimizing and iterating CV (Computer Vision)/multimodal/AIGC-related models, including image/video understanding, image/video generation/editing, and other advanced technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Master's or Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field with excellent programming skills and proficiency in C/C++/Python.
- Familiar with model training frameworks such as TensorFlow/PyTorch, understanding of mixed precision training, distributed training, TensorRT deployment, etc.
- In-depth research in a specific area of computer vision/multimodality,including but not limited to
- multimodal generation, such as text-to-image/video/3D generation and editing, and other related multimodal experiences
- image generation, video generation, 3D generation;
- diffusion model, GAN, transformer for generation tasks.
- large-scale training, RLHF, and generative AI.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong practical skills, priority given to those who have published papers in related competitions and top academic conferences.
- Experience in e-commerce or multimodal/AIGC, including image and video understanding, generation, etc.
- Good learning ability, excellent communication skills, strong responsibility, proactive and enthusiastic attitude.

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Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $355000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.