NLP Engineer (Machine Translation) - 2024 Start

Responsibilities

TikTok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require TikTok's sponsorship of a visa.

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, 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.

About the Team
Our NLP team focuses on solving language barriers and promoting information flowing all over the world. We invite researchers and engineers in natural language processing and machine learning at all levels. We aim at pushing the limits of machine intelligence.

Responsibilities
1. Responsible for machine translation, text generation, and other core NLP algorithm model construction and improvement.
2. Responsible for building NLP foundations.
3. Cutting-edge algorithm research, improving product user experience through algorithms. Our NLP team focuses on solving language barriers and promoting information flowing all over the world. We invite researchers and engineers in natural language processing and machine learning at all levels. We aim at pushing the limits of machine intelligence.

Qualifications

- Final year graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Rich experiences and strong skills in development of technologies in some of the following areas:
- machine translation, natural language generation, large-scale pretraining, probabilistic inference, reinforcement learning, etc.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong computer science and coding skills.
- Work and collaborate well with team members.
- Candidates with top conference papers or influential open-source projects are preferred.

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.

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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at [email protected].