ByteDance · 1 day ago
Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok E-Commerce - Conversational AI)-2026 Start (BS/MS)
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$119K/yr - $187K/yr
0+ years expByteDance is a global technology company known for its innovative products like TikTok. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate to develop chatbot and machine translation solutions to enhance the TikTok Shopping experience, focusing on natural language processing and machine learning.
ContentData MiningInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for developing and optimizing the intelligent customer service of TikTok shopping. This role will work closely with our product and operation teams to understand the intentions of our users, design solutions of experience excellence, and convey these solutions to our users conversationally, with the support of cutting-edge LLMs technology. You will have the chance to develop NLP models (like text classification, machine reading, summarization) and prediction models (like question prediction and chatbot action prediction) to achieve the above goals
You will be responsible for developing and optimizing the machine translation service of TikTok shopping to better support cross-region product listing, buyer-seller communication, and commenting. You will have the chance to develop machine translation models for the conversational environment and text generation models from multi-modality inputs
You will be responsible for developing and optimizing the multi-modal AIGC model for product copywriting, including product title, selling points, description and live broadcast script creation etc. You will have the chance to apply cutting edge AIGC models to save human effort and improve business performance
Qualification
Required
Bachelor degree or above with majors in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, data science or other related disciplines with 0-1 year of work experience
Large language models, natural language generation, machine translation, question answering, machine reading, information extraction, text mining and classification etc
Familiar with at least one computer programming language, including but not limited to go/python/Java
Experience of big data development, including but not limited to hive, spark
Preferred
Work experience in e-commerce or the Internet industry
Practical experience in NLP (dialogue system, machine translation, nlp-related projects in IR/Ads system, etc.)
Candidates who have published high-quality papers are preferred, including but not limited to ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI, IEEE TASLP, etc
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
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.8BKey Investors
Capital TodayG42Tiger Global Management
2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M
2024-07-25Secondary Market
2023-03-14Secondary Market· $100M
Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
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