About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
Job highlights
Positive team atmosphere, Career growth opportunity, Flat organization
Responsibilities
About Video Creation Team:
- The opportunity to work on TikTok’s audio and video creation experiences and build the next generation of AI-powered creative tools for users worldwide.
- A role centered on real product challenges and end-to-end delivery, without being siloed into Android- or iOS-only development.
- The opportunity to integrate AI coding deeply into everyday engineering and help shape the next generation of software development practices.
- Exposure to client-side development, backend systems, audio/video technologies, and AI agent engineering, giving you a broad and well-rounded technical perspective.
- We do not expect you to have mastered every technology stack before joining. We value strong fundamentals, learning agility, creativity, and the ability to turn ideas into working products.
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.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, development, iteration, and delivery of TikTok’s audio and video creation experiences, exploring AI-powered video editing, content generation, visual effects, and new creative workflows.
- Develop features for the TikTok client across Android, iOS, and other platforms, using AI coding tools to work across platforms and technology stacks.
- Deliver end-to-end features spanning client-side development, backend APIs, data processing, and AI capability integration.
- Explore the use of AI coding throughout the software development lifecycle—including requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, debugging, testing, and code review—to continuously improve engineering productivity and delivery quality.
- Help productionize AI agents for audio and video creation, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, compatibility, security, and user experience.
- Contribute to client architecture and engineering infrastructure, including modularization, cross-platform frameworks, audio/video capabilities, build tooling, development workflows, and developer productivity.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, machine learning engineers, backend engineers, and QA teams. With mentorship and guidance, analyze and solve key technical challenges and drive high-quality product delivery.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Information Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong foundation in computer science, including data structures and algorithms, operating systems, computer networks, and software engineering.
- Proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language, such as Swift, Kotlin, Java, Objective-C, C/C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Go.
- Strong interest in client-side development and audio/video creation products, with a willingness to work across Android, iOS, backend systems, and other technical domains to solve real-world problems.
- Enthusiasm for AI-assisted software development, with the ability to use AI effectively for coding, debugging, and technical exploration—and the judgment to critically validate AI-generated output.
- Strong commitment to code quality, analytical problem-solving, and continuous learning, with the initiative to take ownership and drive issues to resolution.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and product-thinking skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive hands-on experience with AI coding tools, including independently delivering a complete project or complex feature with AI assistance.
- Experience with AI agents, workflow orchestration, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, or large language model application development.
- Experience with Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform, or other client-side or cross-platform technologies.
- Experience with audio/video capture, editing, playback, rendering, effects, encoding and decoding, or export pipelines; familiarity with technologies such as FFmpeg, OpenGL, Metal, or Skia.
- Experience contributing to open-source projects, participating in technical competitions, building personal products, or creating complete, demonstrable projects.