Job Description

About TikTok

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, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Douyin, Toutiao, Helo and Resso, ByteDance now has a portfolio of applications available in over 150 markets and 75 languages.

The AR Effect engineering team has been focusing on delivering innovative and high quality visual effects and augmented reality applications which integrates into TikTok's video editing and camera apps. Our mission is to delivery the whole Effect framework and platform which power TikTok's creative video editing capabilities, camera filters, 3D and AR camera effects, and bring that fun and delightful experience directly to our users.

Responsibilities

• Work closely and collaborate with other interactive engineers, designers, software engineers and researchers to improve effect creation tools, implement new tool or product features, build new capabilities and provide support for TikTok Effect platform.

• Develop and maintain reusable systems, tools and pipelines to enhance the interactive engineer team and design team's development efficiency.

• Build pipelines that support interactive engineers and designers on various products.

• Build pipeline features to automate and optimize production workflows and processes.

• Develop tools and systems across teams and digital content creation software.

• Support design team in production and remove technical roadblocks.

Qualifications

• A great portfolio featuring various types of tools, system or pipeline designs and implementations (e.g. AR, VR, games, animation, VFX).

• 3+ years of experience in tool development, pipeline development and/or UI development.

• Good working knowledge with various asset creation software such as Maya, Blender, Houdini, Substance Designer, Z-Brush and Marvelous Designer.

• Good working knowledge with real-time 3D engines and AR engines including but not limited to Unity, Unreal, Lens Studio and SparkAR.

• Working knowledge of one or more programming languages including Python, Lua, Javascript, Typescript and C++.

• Working knowledge of object-oriented programming.

• Experience with both offline and realtime tools, systems and pipelines.

• Work experience with various types of tools including asset creation & optimization, VFX, character art, pipeline automation, server-based production pipeline, etc.

• Fundamental knowledge of asset pipeline frameworks, UI frameworks, interactive/game frameworks, real-time rendering pipelines and shader development.

• Passionate about TikTok and augmented reality.

Additional Desired Requirements:

• Experience developing plugins for 3D engines and software.

• Experience with node or python package management systems.

• Working knowledge of real-time computer graphics and shader programming languages (e.g. GLSL, HLSL).

• Experience with gameplay programming and interactive prototyping.

• 3D math skills.

• Working knowledge of visual scripting languages (e.g. Unreal Blueprint, Unity shader graph, Houdini node graph).

• Experience with front-end/UI development (HTML/CSS/Javascript, PyQt, PySide).

• Experience with version control systems.

• Experience working on customer-oriented tools and products.

• Experience designing and defining feature requirements for tools or software products.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with ambiguity.

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 believe individuals shouldn't be disadvantaged because of their background or identity, but instead should be considered based on their strengths and experience. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or an accommodation, please reach out to us at USRC@tiktok.com.