Senior Natural Language Processing Algorithm Engineer

About ByteDance Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico 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 Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us. About the Team Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey! Responsibilities Develop state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and strategies to improve user consumption experience, inspire merchants' service quality and revenue, and build a fair and flourishing ecosystem on E-commerce Platform. Participate in the development of massive knowledge graphs of real-world products to support feed ranking, recommendations, and ads. Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and the product strategy & operation team to define product strategies and features. Develop and build deep learning models to understand and explore E-Commerce entities such as products, shops, sellers, authors and users, summarize the methods to improve efficiency, generate fundamental data and methods which are widely used in E-Commerce business, such as search, recommendation, user growth, data analysis. Establish similar algorithms and support for merchandize assortment business. Leverage the full advantage of modern ML techniques to build ML models to solve various consumption-related problems. Perform data analysis on our data to improve current products. Extract or generate features with Machine Learning models to support downstream tasks. Keep up with the state-of-art ML and NLP models/methodologies. Mentor junior Engineers.

Qualifications Must have a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Data Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, and 3 years of related work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Data Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, and 5 years of post-bachelor's, progressive related work experience. Of the required experience, must have 3 years of experience in each of the following: Prototyping and developing machine learning and natural language processing models; Deploying machine learning services; Analyzing large quantities of online data to improve user experiences; Designing and performing statistical tests to evaluate online recommendation results; and Processing big data with Hadoop. Travel Requirement: Domestic and/or international travel required up to 10%. Type: Full time, 40 hours/week Location: Bellevue, WA Salary Range: $184300 - $337250 per year To Apply, click the apply button below. Contact lpresumes@bytedance.com if you have difficulty submitting resume through the website. 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 lpresumes@bytedance.com. #LI-DNI #IND-DNI