Agent Evaluation & Evolution Machine Learning Engineer Intern (AML-Ark-US) - 2027 Summer
ByteDanceResponsibilities
- Design evaluation systems for LLM-based agents covering task success, tool use, reasoning quality, and reliability.
- Build benchmarks and automated judging pipelines using rule-based checks, model-based judging, and human review.
- Analyze agent execution traces and user feedback to identify failure patterns and inform system improvements.
- Support the feedback loop from experience to capability and collaborate with research, platform, and product teams to bring methods into production.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, or a related field.
- Solid foundation in machine learning and deep learning.
- Hands-on experience with LLM-based systems such as agents, tool calling, retrieval, or multi-agent systems through research, internships, or projects.
- Strong Python skills and experience with a mainstream machine learning or agent evaluation framework.
- Demonstrated research or engineering ability through publications, substantial projects, internships, or open-source work.
- Preferred: publications at top-tier ML/NLP venues, especially in agent learning, self-improving or self-evolving systems, or agent evaluation.
- Preferred: experience with evaluation methodology, metric design, model-based judging, annotation, or statistical analysis.
- Preferred: familiarity with LLM post-training, reasoning and planning methods, continual learning, feedback-driven optimization loops, or large-scale log and trace analysis.
Benefits
- Internship program offering hands-on experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to apply knowledge to real-world challenges.
- Social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; candidates should state their availability and start and end dates in their resume.
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About ByteDance
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