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Backend Software Engineer (Content Understanding), TikTok Live Foundation (Sydney)

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TikTok

Backend Software Engineer (Content Understanding), TikTok Live Foundation (Sydney)

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities

About Our Team:
Our team aims to help TikTok's SMB merchants and creators obtain more diverse customer acquisition and business operation methods through live streaming by building product capabilities and providing creator services, and to offer professional live streaming content for users.

We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us and empower content understanding in SMB business. We are working on cutting-edge content understanding topics and engaging with industry recognition and intention recognition for our creators, enhancing LIVE content diversity and creator monetization.

Job Responsibilities
- Life-cycle model development, from model training, deployment, maintenance, and iteration.

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- Convert ML models to scalable online services for online businesses.
- Understand product goals and improve content understanding strategy and model's performance
- Collaborate with engineers from diverse technical backgrounds and cross-functional teams to integrate advanced modeling techniques into production.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification
- Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++.
- Solid knowledge and experience with at least one major deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow)
- 2+ years experience in one or more of the areas: machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, NLP, Audio, content understanding or participating in large-scale online machine learning platforms are preferred
- Experience building scalable, highly available, distributed and mission-critical systems.

Preferred Qualification
- Able to work closely with diverse stakeholders and have good communication skills
- Self-driven, positive, cooperative and willing to keep learning at all times
- Authors with publications in top-tier venues such as SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR

Client-provided location(s): Sydney NSW, Australia
Job ID: TikTok-7490720195885189394
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • HSA
    • Life Insurance
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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