[Remote] Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-commerce-Conversational AI) - 2026 Summer/Fall (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 Intern to develop NLP/ML algorithms to enhance user experience and support the e-commerce platform's Intelligent Customer Service.

Responsibilities

• Applying LLMs for a variety of multilingual and multimodal scenarios of e-commerce business
• Establishing a generative-based AI chatbot that is capable of resolving post-sale issues and achieving pre-sale interactive consultations
• Text generation, including product titles and descriptions, dialogue summary, auto-replying of emails and tickets, etc
• Machine translation, including optimizing translation quality in dozens of scenarios and language pairs in the e-commerce scenarios, as well as the research of related cutting-edge technologies

Skills

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Experience with software development in at least one of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Go, Java
• Good sense of teamwork and communication skills, practical experience in relevant business scenarios is preferred
• Experience in NLP and LLM technologies
• Proficient in using at least one mainstream deep learning framework such as TensorFlow/PyTorch, understanding distributed training, distillation acceleration, and other implementation methods
• Aware of certain processing methods and optimization experience on domain adaptation, small sample construction, text mining, unsupervised/semi-supervised, and other similar issues
• Familiar with commonly used machine learning and deep learning algorithms, understand basic network model structure (DNN/LSTM/CNN, etc.) and text representation methods (LDA/Word2Vec/ELMo/GPT/BERT, etc.), have practical experience in deep learning training and reasoning model tuning
• Experience in large-scale text data processing or cleaning (Such as using Hadoop/Spark/Hive/Flink)

Benefits

• Interns have day one access to health insurance
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits and more
• Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
• Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance

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