Senior Research Scientist, Generative AI - Privacy

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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

At TikTok, we treat privacy as our top priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance, but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users’ privacy choices!

Privacy Innovation (PI) Lab is established to explore the next frontier of privacy technology and theory in the digitalized world. We provide key insights and technical solutions on privacy-related innovation for all TikTok’s products. Furthermore, we also collaborate with worldwide technical and academic communities to build an open ecosystem to promote a privacy-friendly digital experience.

Responsibilities
- Design and execute research on the critical industrial challenges of GenAI innovation.
- Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from the TikTok product family and provide technical consulting on privacy-related features.
- Work with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from our research to product prototyping.
- Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations.
- Represent PI Lab and our work in the external technical and academic community.Minimum Qualifications:
- PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Research experience in GenAI with a strong publication record or contributions to open-source projects.

Preferred Qualifications:
3 years of research or production experience in the following areas:
- Pretraining, fine-tuning, and post-training
- Responsible AI, privacy-preserving LLMs, and LLM alignment
- Reinforcement learning for tuning language models
- Efficient training and inference techniques

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.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2