Research Scientist/Engineer, Neural Graphics and World Models Graduate (TikTok Engine & Tools) - 2027 Start (PhD)

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Algorithm Research Scientist/Engineer, Neural Graphics and World Models Graduate (Tik*** Engine & Tools) - 2027 Start (PhD) Location : San Jose Employment Type : Regular Job Code : A47038 Responsibilities About the Team Join the Tik*** Engine & Tools AI-3D team, where we are building a next-generation AI-native graphics engine for games and interactive experiences across Tik*** and future creative

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Qualifications

• Minimum
• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Research experience through a laboratory, thesis, publication, internship, open-source project, or substantial independent project.
• Engineering fluency with model development workflows and the ability to reason about model architecture, training dynamics, data quality, and evaluation results.
• Ability to understand recent research, design controlled experiments, analyze failures, and contribute to model training, data, or evaluation workflows.
• Interest in collaborating with Software Engineers to move research prototypes into interactive engine pipelines.
• Preferred
• Peer-reviewed publications at leading venues such as SIGGRAPH, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, RSS, CoRL, or related research communities.
• Strong technical reports, open-source contributions, demos, project pages, or research projects that show technical depth, originality, and independent experimentation.
• Experience with 3D or world generation conditioned on text, images, video, actions, or structured scene inputs.
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Responsibilities

• About the Team
• Join the Tik*** Engine &
• About the role
• We are looking for new-graduate Research Scientists / Engineers to work on foundational problems in neural graphics and world models.
• You will own a scoped project in one primary research focus track, such as model development, data strategy, evaluation, or interactive prototyping.
• You will work with other engineers to connect successful models and experiments to data, runtime, and engine pipelines.
• This role is intended for candidates with strong research potential who enjoy turning ideas into working experiments, analyzing failures, and building useful prototypes.
• Study relevant research, reproduce strong baselines, and identify practical extensions.
• Develop and evaluate models, algorithms, data methods, or evaluation methods in a scoped research area.
• Build components of training, inference, data, or evaluation workflows using modern ML frameworks.
• Run controlled experiments, analyze model behavior, and communicate findings clearly.
• Create research prototypes for interactive graphics, creative

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