Software Development Engineer in Test - Multimodal AIGC Audio Technology

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The Quality Technology Team focuses on the quality domain, providing a series of effective quality products and tools throughout the entire software engineering lifecycle from development, testing, and changes to online operation and maintenance. We work closely with the Speech Engineering team to helping them quickly build quality technology capabilities in areas such as quality built-in, testing efficiency, automated testing, change risk prevention and control, architectural risk governance, and monitoring and emergency response. The Speech Engineering team is committed to the research and development of voice, audio, music and other large model AIGC technology and product innovation. The mission is to empower content creation and voice interaction through multimodal AIGC audio technology, so that content production, consumption and interaction become simple, immersive and diversified. Currently, the team has mature technologies in the fields of speech generation, voice cloning, audio understanding and processing, music understanding and generation, etc.

Responsibilities

• Mainly responsible for the quality of speech / image / video / natural language processing products or line of business testing and tool development work.
• Deeply involved in product development projects, with the PM and RD team to deliver high quality products.
• Daily project offline testing and online quality analysis.
• Participate in quality system planning and construction.
• Participate in the development of effective tools and ensure the quality of technical projects.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields from accredited and reputable institutions.
• Strong knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Golang, Java, C++, etc.).
• Proven experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or similar role and familiar with test automation tools and frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in audio algorithms / computer vision algorithms / NLP / multimodal evaluation or quality assurance preferred.
• Have a certain understanding of machine learning, deep learning concepts and mainstream frameworks; familiar with the principles of GPT/BERT/T5 preferred.
• Have a strong learning ability, analytical ability, problem solving and abstract problem features ability; have a positive problem communication way, can well drive the problem to be solved quickly.
• Have a certain planning and driving ability, self-driven, have their own thinking about the development of the testing industry; broad technical vision and strong technical foresight.
• Good communication expression and teamwork skills.

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

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Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $180000 - $374000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.