NLP Researcher, AI Lab Research

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 Chinese 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. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.

About the Team
Our NLP team focuses on natural language generation, improving the reasoning ability of language models, such as machine translation, natural language generation, etc. We invite researchers and engineers in machine learning and natural language processing at all levels. We aim at pushing the limits of machine intelligence.

Responsibilities
- Build multilingual multimodal large language models, multilingual translation, end-to-end speech/video cross-lingual translation large language models, text generation, and other core natural language processing algorithms.
- Building basic NLP components for different application scenarios.
- Cutting-edge NLP algorithm research and applications on our products.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum Master's in Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & Systems Analysis, Science (Computer Studies) or other relevant fields
- Experiences and strong skills in the development of technologies in some of the following areas: natural language generation, machine translation, large-scale pre-training, reinforcement learning, etc
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in computer science and coding skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Candidates with top conference papers or influential open-source projects are preferred.

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 creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.