Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life.

With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.

About the team:

The Applied Machine Learning (AML) team serves as ByteDance's central AI organization. We conduct focused research and engineering, with the support of massive computation resources, to build and deploy state-of-the-art AI core technologies, including but not limited to LLM, recommendations, etc. We are looking for strong researchers and engineers who have a background in generative AI and NLP, with experience in areas like LLM pretrain, interpretable LLM; LLM evaluation; responsible LLMs; LLM alignment.

Responsibilities:

• Design methods, tools to push forward the state of the art in LLM.
• Conduct experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results.
• Implement relevant downstream applications.
• Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts.

Requirements:

1. Published papers at top conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, RecSys and KDD.
2. Familiar with at least one of the mainstream deep learning frameworks, like TensorFlow, Pytroch or Jax; familiar with their underlying frameworks and implementation mechanisms.
3. Had experience of improving core recommendation algorithms in real products.
4. Good communication and technical leadership skills, able to mentor new graduates for working on short term applied research projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Rich experience and understanding of NLP, solid foundation in Machine Learning such as optimization, sparsity, etc
2. Certain understanding of training infra.
3. Strong interest in AI generation

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space...

ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.

ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations...

ByteDance Inc. 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 [email protected].