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

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ByteDance is a company that inspires creativity and enriches life through its innovative products. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate to develop next-generation chatbot and machine translation solutions to enhance the TikTok Shopping experience, focusing on natural language processing and machine learning. Responsibilities You will be responsible for developing and optimizing the intelligent customer service of TikTok 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 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 Skills Currently pursuing PhD degree with majors in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, data science or other related disciplines 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 Work experience in e-commerce or the Internet industry is preferred Practical experience in NLP (dialogue system, machine translation, nlp-related projects in IR/Ads system, etc.) are preferred Candidates who have published high-quality papers are preferred, including but not limited to ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI, IEEE TASLP, etc Benefits We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care. 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off(PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability. Mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. Company Overview ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Beijing, Beijing, CHN, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship ByteDance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1350 in 2025, 1123 in 2024, 775 in 2023, 487 in 2022, 417 in 2021, 245 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.