Lead Researcher, Large Language Models/LLM, TikTok

Our Foundations and Intelligence Service R&D team is fast growing and responsible for building state-of-the-art foundation models, such as LLM, VLM and Omni Models. Our mission is to build a bridge for collaboration between foundation models and downstream business scenarios, and use foundation model powered world knowledge to enhance better user experiences across TikTok, including content moderation, search and recommendations, client AI, etc.

We are looking for researchers in LLM, VLM and Omni Model domain who are experienced in single/multi-modality LLM pretraining and applications, including evaluations, data processing and recipes for pre-training and post-training, reinforcement learning based alignment, efficient training and inference. There are no doubt a lot of unsolved problems in the LLM domain which could have a huge impact on industry and academia. In TikTok, we have real applications, resources and patience for technology incubation.

Your main responsibilities will be

• Lead the incubation of next-generation, high-capacity LLM solutions for TikTok business, identify and define both short and medium term objectives;
• Design methods, tools, data recipes and experiments to push forward state-of-art in large language models;
• Explore new model architecture and inference-efficient model design for LLM applications to scale impact on business
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to plan and implement projects harnessing LLMs for diverse purposes and vertical domains
• Extend the insights and impact from industry to academia