Responsibilities
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, Helo, and Resso, 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
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 to achieve every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.
About the Team
Our NLP team focuses on solving language barriers and promoting information flowing all over the world. We invite researchers and engineers in machine learning and natural language processing at all levels. We aim at pushing the limits of machine intelligence.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us in 2025. 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 ByteDance.
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 ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities
• Design and execute technical and theoretic research on multilingual LLMs, speech and vision foundation models.
• Responsible for building NLP foundations, presenting research outcomes to internal and/or external audiences
• Cutting-edge algorithm research, improving product user experience through algorithms
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
• Final year Ph.D or recent Ph.D graduates in Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & Systems Analysis, Science (Computer Studies)
• Strong skills in development of technologies in some of the following areas: natural language generation, machine translation, large-scale pre-training, reinforcement learning
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in one or several mainstream programming languages, including C/C++, Python, Go
Preferred qualifications:
• Candidates with top conference papers such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL
• Influential open-source projects on LLMs, text, speech, and vision generation
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.
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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@bytedance.com