Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Audio Understanding) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities

About the Team
The speech team's mission is to empower content understanding, interaction and creation across TikTok and other products using speech & audio related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like speech & audio, music processing, natural language understanding and multimodal deep learning. We are looking for top talents to work on these exciting technologies, integrate them into various TikTok and other products and ultimately bring joy to our global user base!
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.
Responsibilities

• support the full-duplex voice interaction technology in practical applications, and conduct cutting-edge research in the application of voice interaction;
• Support the implementation of speech recognition technology in diverse business scenarios both inside and outside the company, and continuously optimize the performance of core speech recognition technologies;
• Build the core technology system for audio understanding, focus on cutting-edge technologies and algorithm performance in audio understanding, and pursue and explore the most cutting-edge algorithms in the industry.Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Familiar with speech recognition, audio understanding, and voice interaction algorithms, with hands-on experience in optimizing models using large-scale data;
• In-depth understanding and practical experience in deep learning and LLM technologies, familiar with platforms such as PyTorch;
• Strong coding skills, familiar with Linux development environment, proficient in C++ and Python programming languages;
• Ability to work independently while maintaining good teamwork and interpersonal relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

• Published papers in relevant international conferences or mainstream journals (ICASSP, Interspeech, ASRU, IEEE/ACM Transactions, etc.);
• Top international rankings in speech-related competitions or machine learning competitions, or awards in programming competitions such as ACM/NOI/IOI/TopCoder;
• Participation in influential open-source projects;
• Excellent communication skills, strong sense of ownership, organizational and coordination abilities, optimistic and self-reflective.