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Scientist roles qualify for H-1B1 Singapore visa sponsorship when they require a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related scientific field. Singapore nationals skip the H-1B lottery, face a 5,400-annual cap that routinely goes unfilled, and apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore rather than waiting on USCIS petition processing.
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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.
About The Team
The Intelligent Creation – Global GenAI team focuses on applied research in Generative AI, delivering intelligent creation solutions for the TikTok platform. Our mission is to empower users to create and share high-quality content with ease. The team works on cutting-edge areas including multimodal foundation models, image and video generation and editing, efficient model design, and world models.
About The Role
With rapid advances in AGI and foundation models, multimodal content creation across text, image, and video is undergoing a fundamental transformation. This role focuses on building next-generation multimodal and agentic foundation models that enable intelligent, efficient, and end-to-end creative workflows. You will work on full-modal understanding, AIGC-based image and video generation, and agentic systems, optimizing models through large-scale training and post-training (e.g., SFT, RL). The role also involves designing efficient model architectures and advancing reinforcement learning techniques to improve model capability, scalability, and real-world performance in creation scenarios.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research and development in generative AI and multimodal models (e.g., image, video).
- Develop large-scale foundation models (LLMs/VLMs), through post-training techniques.
- Design and build models for creative applications on the TikTok platform, driving end-to-end impact from research to production through cross-functional collaboration.
- Explore new AI-driven product opportunities and contribute to next-generation creative experiences.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Proficiency in training generative AI or large models using frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
- Strong programming skills and solid fundamentals in machine learning.
- Strong problem-solving ability and motivation to tackle real-world challenges.
- Good communication and collaboration skills in fast-paced environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong research background in one or more areas: generative AI, LLMs/VLMs, or ML systems.
- Hands-on experience in at least one of the following areas: Image/video generation and editing; VLM/LLM fine-tuning; Efficient model design and optimization; Reinforcement learning methods (e.g., RLHF, DPO, GRPO)
- Track record of research publications in conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, or SIGGRAPH Asia.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $241680 - $456000 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:
- Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
- Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
- Exercising sound judgment.
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.
TikTok Accommodation
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://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Responsibilities
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.
About The Team
The Intelligent Creation – Global GenAI team focuses on applied research in Generative AI, delivering intelligent creation solutions for the TikTok platform. Our mission is to empower users to create and share high-quality content with ease. The team works on cutting-edge areas including multimodal foundation models, image and video generation and editing, efficient model design, and world models.
About The Role
With rapid advances in AGI and foundation models, multimodal content creation across text, image, and video is undergoing a fundamental transformation. This role focuses on building next-generation multimodal and agentic foundation models that enable intelligent, efficient, and end-to-end creative workflows. You will work on full-modal understanding, AIGC-based image and video generation, and agentic systems, optimizing models through large-scale training and post-training (e.g., SFT, RL). The role also involves designing efficient model architectures and advancing reinforcement learning techniques to improve model capability, scalability, and real-world performance in creation scenarios.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research and development in generative AI and multimodal models (e.g., image, video).
- Develop large-scale foundation models (LLMs/VLMs), through post-training techniques.
- Design and build models for creative applications on the TikTok platform, driving end-to-end impact from research to production through cross-functional collaboration.
- Explore new AI-driven product opportunities and contribute to next-generation creative experiences.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Proficiency in training generative AI or large models using frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
- Strong programming skills and solid fundamentals in machine learning.
- Strong problem-solving ability and motivation to tackle real-world challenges.
- Good communication and collaboration skills in fast-paced environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong research background in one or more areas: generative AI, LLMs/VLMs, or ML systems.
- Hands-on experience in at least one of the following areas: Image/video generation and editing; VLM/LLM fine-tuning; Efficient model design and optimization; Reinforcement learning methods (e.g., RLHF, DPO, GRPO)
- Track record of research publications in conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, or SIGGRAPH Asia.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $241680 - $456000 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:
- Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
- Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
- Exercising sound judgment.
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.
TikTok Accommodation
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://tinyurl.com/RA-request
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Align your degree field to the role
Your Singapore degree must map directly to the scientific discipline of the Scientist position, not just to science broadly. A chemistry degree supporting a biochemist role passes; a physics degree for a computational biology role may trigger scrutiny at the consulate.
Pull prevailing wage data before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the DOL prevailing wage for your specific SOC occupation code and the employer's county. Your offered salary must meet or exceed that level, and your employer certifies this on the Labor Condition Application before your visa appointment.
Search verified H-1B1 sponsors on Migrate Mate
Filter your Scientist job search on Migrate Mate to see which employers have active H-1B1 Singapore LCA filing history. This cuts the time spent approaching employers who've never navigated the H-1B1 process and aren't set up to file.
Confirm the employer files an LCA, not an I-129
H-1B1 visa applications don't require a USCIS-approved I-129 petition before your consular appointment. Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL, then you use that certified LCA at the embassy. Employers unfamiliar with this sometimes start the wrong process.
Check O*NET before your interview
Review the O*NET occupation profile for your specific Scientist job title to confirm it lists a bachelor's degree in a scientific field as the standard entry requirement. Consular officers assess specialty occupation partly against standard industry education norms.
Request a two-year validity stamp at the consulate
H-1B1 visas are issued in one-year increments by default, but officers can grant two-year stamps. Ask your employer's filing contact to request maximum validity in the DS-160 supporting documents so you don't face a consular renewal within your first year.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Scientist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Singapore?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific scientific field directly related to the duties. A research scientist role requiring a degree in molecular biology qualifies; a lab technician role that accepts any science degree or no degree typically does not. The consular officer makes the final specialty occupation determination at your visa interview.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore differ from the H-1B for Scientist roles?
The H-1B1 Singapore has no lottery, no USCIS petition requirement, and an annual cap of 5,400 that has never been exhausted. You apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore after your employer files a certified Labor Condition Application with DOL. The H-1B requires USCIS to approve a full I-129 petition, is subject to an annual lottery, and has a much smaller per-nationality cap pressure for Singaporeans.
How do I find Scientist employers who already know the H-1B1 Singapore process?
Migrate Mate shows verified H-1B1 Singapore LCA filing history by employer and occupation, so you can identify which research institutions, biotech firms, and pharmaceutical companies have sponsored Singaporean scientists before. Approaching employers with an existing H-1B1 track record significantly reduces the education burden on their HR and legal teams during the offer stage.
Can I transfer an H-1B1 Singapore visa if I change Scientist employers?
H-1B1 visa does not have H-1B portability. If you change employers, your new employer must file a fresh Labor Condition Application with DOL and you must attend a new consular interview or apply for a visa amendment. You cannot begin work for the new employer until the new LCA is certified and your status is updated, so factor that timeline into any job transition.
Does my Singapore university degree meet U.S. specialty occupation standards for Scientist roles?
Singaporean bachelor's degrees are generally recognized as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees for consular purposes. The key factor is whether your field of study directly corresponds to the Scientist role's duties. A degree from NUS, NTU, or SMU in a relevant scientific discipline, supported by official transcripts and a credential evaluation if requested, is typically sufficient for consular officers assessing specialty occupation eligibility.