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 is committed to the research and deployment of the next-generation of AI core technologies, such as large pretrained models and device-cloud collaboration learning, as well as their wide applications in practice, including but not limited to search, recommendation, advertising, auditing, federated learning, etc. The team has a strong foundation in scientific research, engineering and product implementation. Team members have rich backgrounds covering NLP, CV, multimodality, graph computing, search and recommendation, federated learning and other fields, and have published more than 100 top-tier conference papers. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2024. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok. Successful candidates must be able to commit to a start date before the end of 2024. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy state-of-the-art models in various downstream applications, especially code generation and autogpt applications;
• We are devoted to resolving cognitive reasoning challenges and constructing a potent, universal problem-solving AI agent, leveraging pretrained LLM models and deepening our expertise in code generation and comprehension.
• Collaborate with software engineers to build enterprise-level platforms with cutting-edge models;
• Collaborate with open-source communities or academia to advance AI development.

Requirements:

• Ph.D. graduate with a background in in NLP, code generation, large pretrained models, or participating in large-scale online machine learning platforms are preferred
• Candidates with pre-training foundation technologies, including efficient training and pretraining as a service, downstream applications of NLP/CV/Video are preferred
• Strong sense of responsibility, good learning ability, communication ability, and self-motivation.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress.

Nice to Have:

• Candidates with top-tier conference papers, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, OSDI, NSDI, SC and SigMOD, etc., relevant internship experience or winners of ACM competitions are preferred
• High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities

Our Commitment:

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 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.

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].

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