ByteDance · 2 days ago
Machine Learning Graduate (eCommerce Recommendation) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad
$113K/yr - $178K/yr
0+ years expByteDance is a global technology company known for its innovative products including TikTok. They are seeking a Machine Learning Graduate to join their E-commerce Recommendation Team, where the role involves conducting research in machine learning algorithms and building large-scale recommendation systems to enhance the shopping experience for TikTok users.
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Responsibilities
Work in a team to conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning algorithms, such as retrieval and recommendation algorithms
Participate in building large-scale (10 million to 100 million) e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems, including commodity recommendations, live stream recommendations, short video recommendations etc in TikTok
Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently
Apply machine learning algorithms to improve the different business scenarios, such as search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust and safety
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or above (or expected by 2026) in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent industrial research experience with 0-1 year of work experience
Familiar with at least one of the mainstream deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems
Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
Preferred
Experience in one of the following fields: recommendation systems, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields preferred
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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