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Software Engineer
- Creative AI, Ads Creative & Ecosystem
3+ months ago• San Jose, CA
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About Us
Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
Size: 5001-10000 employees
Industry: Entertainment & Gaming, Social Media, Technology
Responsibilities:
A "creative" is the ad (in the form of a short-form video) served to Tik Tok users, composed of video, background music, call-to-action card, post-click landing page, and other formats that get delivered to users. A quote goes "creativity is the soul of advertising", because a good ad creative is effective, yet difficult to produce, especially at the scale of Tik Tok advertising.
Tik Tok Ads Creative & Ecosystem team tackles the challenge of creating engaging and effective ad creatives at scale. Our mission is to build cutting-edge tech solutions for ad understanding, production, and optimization, empowering advertisers, creators, and partners to deliver the best creative experiences.
The team is building platforms to provide in-depth and unique AI-driven data insights to provide creative guidance to advertisers, which is the key for their ads planning and iteration. We are looking for an engineer leader with strong data application background to join our fast growing team. The engineer leader will lead the team to focus on creative insights direction, grow business understanding, build highly scalable and reliable software/infrastructure, partner across functions with global teams, and make big impacts. If you are someone who welcomes challenges, we are eager to have you on the team!
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the construction of Tik Tok AIGC advertising creative business, and solve the problem of advertising creative supply through AIGC's capabilities;
- Responsible for cooperating with upstream and downstream teams of advertising, through close cooperation, to build AIGC's creative capabilities into excellent products, and provide targeted advertising creative solutions for various industries;
- Responsible for the exploration and construction of cutting-edge creative tool products related to AIGC, including but not limited to video, audio, image, text, etc., with strong product awareness and the ability to quickly capture relevant opportunities.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree or above, computer-related majors are preferred; have a solid foundation in data structure and algorithm, excellent coding skills, familiar with Linux and development environment, proficiency in Golang/Python is preferred;
- Familiar with common creative audio and video rendering protocols or services, and have a clear understanding of the entire creative production process, such as Cap Cut/Adobe;
- Have experience in building a creative middle platform, understand how to attribute advertising videos for creativity, and have certain experience;
- Good at communication, proactive work, strong sense of responsibility, and good teamwork ability; have strong problem abstraction ability, have the ability to analyze and debug production systems, and strong system tuning ability.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiar with the advertising system and have a certain understanding of the upstream and downstream of advertising;
- Familiar with AIGC's internal and external tools and understand AIGC products.
Job InformationFor Pay Transparency Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $259200 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:
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Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
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Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
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Exercising sound judgment.
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Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA
Job ID: Tik Tok-7460074469647190280
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-01-16T03:52:28
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TikTok
Late StageA short-form video entertainment app and social network platform
10,001+
Employees
Los Angeles
Headquarters
$220B
Valuation
Reviews
3.1
3 reviews
Work Life Balance
1.5
Compensation
2.0
Culture
1.2
Career
1.8
Management
1.0
5%
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Pros
Limited positive feedback available
Company size allows for potential opportunities
Technology platform experience
Cons
Mass layoffs and poor handling of terminations
Unprofessional management and HR behavior
Exposure to traumatic content without adequate support
Salary Ranges
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$195,000
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Base
$150,000
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$195,000
Interview Experience
4 interviews
Difficulty
3.5
/ 5
Duration
21-35 weeks
Experience
Positive 0%
Neutral 25%
Negative 75%
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Application Review
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Recruiter Screen
3
Online Assessment
4
Technical Phone Screen
5
Onsite/Virtual Interviews
6
Team Matching
7
Offer
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System Design
Behavioral/STAR
Technical Knowledge
Data Structures
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