ByteDance · 1 day ago
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-commerce-Conversational AI) - 2026 Summer (MS)
Seattle, WA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$42.75/hr - $42.75/hr
Start in 2026 SpringByteDance is a dynamic tech company known for its innovative products like TikTok and CapCut. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to develop NLP/ML algorithms that enhance user experience and merchant services on their E-commerce platform.
ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
Applying LLMs for a variety of multilingual and multimodal scenarios of e-commerce business
Establishing a generative-based AI chatbot that is capable of resolving post-sale issues and achieving pre-sale interactive consultations
Text generation, including product titles and descriptions, dialogue summary, auto-replying of emails and tickets, etc
Machine translation, including optimizing translation quality in dozens of scenarios and language pairs in the e-commerce scenarios, as well as the research of related cutting-edge technologies
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Experience with software development in at least one of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Go, Java
Good sense of teamwork and communication skills, practical experience in relevant business scenarios is preferred
Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during Summer 2026
Preferred
Experience in NLP and LLM technologies
Proficient in using at least one mainstream deep learning framework such as TensorFlow/PyTorch, understanding distributed training, distillation acceleration, and other implementation methods
Aware of certain processing methods and optimization experience on domain adaptation, small sample construction, text mining, unsupervised/semi-supervised, and other similar issues
Familiar with commonly used machine learning and deep learning algorithms, understand basic network model structure (DNN/LSTM/CNN, etc.) and text representation methods (LDA/Word2Vec/ELMo/GPT/BERT, etc.), have practical experience in deep learning training and reasoning model tuning
Experience in large-scale text data processing or cleaning (Such as using Hadoop/Spark/Hive/Flink)
Benefits
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
Housing allowance
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
Founded in 2012
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.8BKey Investors
Capital TodayG42Tiger Global Management
2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M
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Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
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