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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok E-Commerce - Conversational AI)-2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance

$136,800 - $259,200
Aug 19, 2025
San Jose, CA, US
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ByteDance is looking to improve the TikTok Shopping experience by developing next-generation chatbot and machine translation solutions. This involves enhancing intelligent customer service, supporting cross-region product listing and communication, and optimizing multi-modal AIGC models for product copywriting.

Requirements

  • Large language models, natural language generation, machine translation, question answering, machine reading, information extraction, text mining and classification etc.
  • Practical experience in NLP (dialogue system, machine translation, nlp-related projects in IR/Ads system, etc.) are preferred.
  • 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
  • Candidates who have published high-quality papers are preferred, including but not limited to ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI, IEEE TASLP, etc.

Responsibilities

  • You will be responsible for developing and optimizing the intelligent customer service of TikTok shopping.
  • 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.
  • You will be responsible for developing and optimizing the machine translation service of TikTok 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.
  • You will be responsible for developing and optimizing 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.

Other

  • Currently pursuing PhD degree with majors in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, data science or other related disciplines.
  • Work experience in e-commerce or the Internet industry is preferred.
  • 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.
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.