Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (AML Algorithm) - 2025 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok 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.

Team Introduction

The mission of our Applied Machine Learning (AML) team is to push next-generation machine learning algorithms and platforms for the recommendation system, ads ranking, and search ranking in our company. We also drive substantial impact for core businesses of the company. Currently, we are looking forto join our team to support and advance that mission.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2025. 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 ByteDance.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2025.

We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit to these start dates. 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 for a maximum of TWO positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you applied for. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally.

Online Assessment

Candidates who pass resume evaluation will be invited to participate in ByteDance 's technical online assessment through HackerRank.

• Build new features that touch hundreds of millions of people around the world
• Solve unique, large-scale, highly complex technical problems
• Build the next-generation monetization platform to help millions of customers grow their businesses
• Work with your mentor to deliver product features and make engineering improvements;
• Build world-class web applications that combine usability, accessibility, elegance, performance, and maintainability
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Proficient in C/C /Python/Golang, and have solid programming skills(e.g. algorithms and data structures).
• Familiar with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow/Pytorch).
• Ability to work independently and complete projects from beginning to end and in a timely manner.
• Good communication and teamwork skills to clearly communicate technical concepts with other teammates.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to an open sourced machine learning framework (TensorFlow/PyTorch), experience on improving core machine learning infrastructure.
• Experience in big data frameworks (e.g., K8s/Spark/Hadoop/Flink), experience in resource management and task scheduling for large scale distributed systems, experience in building solutions with AWS, GCP, Azures, OCI, AliCloud or other cloud services. [Scheduling]
• Strong background in one of the following fields: Hardware-Software Co-Design, High-Performance Computing, ML Hardware Acceleration (e.g., GPU/TPU/RDMA) or ML for Systems.
• Experience in developing and deploying large-scale systems(e.g. Monitoring, Analyzing, Troubleshooting, and Notification systems), strong understanding of code optimizing, routine task automation and failure self-healing, familiar with IaC technologies like Terraform/Ansible. [EffeciencyTool]
  
  

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 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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $144000 - $153600 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.