Machine Learning Engineer Graduate; TikTok E-Commerce - Conversational AI BS​/MS

Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Tik Tok E-Commerce - Conversational AI)-2026 Start (BS/MS)

Location:

San Jose

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A229134

Team Introduction:
Our team is responsible for developing next-generation chatbot and machine translation solutions to improve the Tik Tok Shopping experience across the world. We are currently looking for talented engineers that have a deep understanding of natural language processing and machine learning, especially ones with solid skills and experience of large language models, machine translation, and conversational AI. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026.

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 Byte Dance. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. 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 Byte Dance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

• Develop and optimize the intelligent customer service of Tik Tok shopping. This role will work closely with our product and operation teams to understand the intentions of our users, design solutions of experience excellence, and convey these solutions to our users conversationally, with the support of cutting-edge LLMs technology. You will have the chance to develop NLP models (like text classification, machine reading, summarization) and prediction models (like question prediction and chatbot action prediction) to achieve the above goals.
• Develop and optimize the machine translation service of Tik Tok shopping to better support cross-region product listing, buyer-seller communication, and commenting. You will have the chance to develop machine translation models for the conversational environment and text generation models from multi-modality inputs.
• Develop and optimize the multi-modal AIGC model for product copywriting, including product title, selling points, description and live broadcast script creation etc. You will have the chance to apply cutting edge AIGC models to save human effort and improve business performance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree or above with majors in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, data science or other related disciplines with 0-1 year of work experience
• Large language models, natural language generation, machine translation, question answering, machine reading, information extraction, text mining and classification etc.
• Familiar with at least one computer programming language, including but not limited to Go/Python/Java.
• Experience of big data development, including but not limited to Hive, Spark.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience in e-commerce or the Internet industry
• Practical experience in NLP (dialogue system, machine translation, nlp-related projects in IR/Ads system, etc.)
• Candidates who have published high-quality papers are preferred, including but not limited to ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI, IEEE TASLP, etc.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118,657 - $187,200 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.

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:

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