Responsibilities
- Build large-scale recommendation algorithms and systems for products, livestreams, and short videos.
- Develop user-interest models and extract relevant information from large datasets.
- Design, evaluate, and iterate on candidate-generation and ranking models, including click-through-rate and conversion-rate prediction.
- Build real-time data pipelines, perform feature engineering, optimize models, and develop supporting tools.
- Support scalable production ML models, run experiments, and resolve deployment bugs.
- Build algorithms for extracting, transforming, and loading large volumes of real-time unstructured data.
- Collaborate with the team using statistics, scripting, programming languages, and relevant deployment platforms.
Requirements
- Completing or recently completed a bachelor's degree in software development, computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong programming and problem-solving ability.
- Applied machine learning experience with algorithms such as collaborative filtering, matrix factorization, factorization machines, Word2vec, logistic regression, gradient boosting trees, deep neural networks, or Wide and Deep.
- Experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Experience with C++, Python, or an equivalent programming language.
- Master's degree study or completion, recommendation systems, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, relevant publications, or Kaggle/KDD Cup experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Graduate opportunity with bold ideas, complex challenges, and growth opportunities.
- Must be available to commit to an onboarding date by the end of 2027; applicants should state availability and graduation date clearly.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and candidates may apply to a maximum of two company or affiliate positions globally.
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About ByteDance
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok. 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. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users. We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.