Research Scientist - Generative AI Graduate (Intelligent Creation) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California, US Until 10/6/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted August 7, 2026 Last posted August 7, 2026
Job description

Description

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.

About the Team
The Intelligent Creation - Global GenAI team focuses on applied research in Generative AI, and delivers intelligent solutions to Tiktok, enabling users to make and share creative content in a much easier way. The team has research groups dedicated to multimodal foundation models for content creation, image/video generation and editing, efficient modeling, and world models.

Responsibilities
- Develop large-scale, diverse, and interactive multi-modal data generation pipeline.
- Develop training pipeline for long-context interactive video generation models.
- Advance video generation models to capture long-horizon temporal consistency, realistic physical dynamics, object interactions, and causal relationships from large-scale multi-modal data.
- Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills
- Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in Python/C++.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experiences in broad GenAI, multimodal foundation models, or Embodied AI areas.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts and collaborate effectively within cross-functional research teams
- Proven track record of first-author publications in prestigious venues including CVPR, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, and ICML

About this role

Summary

Research in generative AI, develop multi-modal data pipelines, and advance video models.

Job title

Research Scientist - Generative AI Graduate (Intelligent Creation) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

Experience level

graduate level

Industry

software

Location requirements

Must be in San Jose, CA; remote not specified.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonC++algorithmsprogramming

Preferred skills

multimodal foundation modelsembodied AIpublications

Specializations

generative AImultimodal modelscontent creationvideo generationartificial intelligence
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

On-site City