Job Summary:
ByteDance is a company focused on inspiring creativity and enriching life through innovative products. They are seeking a Research Scientist to join their Applied Machine Learning Ark team, where the role involves developing and operating Large Language Model service platforms and optimizing AI systems for real-world applications.
Responsibilities:
• Building a next-generation big model as a service platform to serve hundreds of LLMs based applications;
• To develop and maintain the big model as a service platform, including offline training/finetuning, online inference, model management, and resource orchestration, etc.;
• To manage a huge number of GPU resources and provide computing power efficiently.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• Research experience in one or more of the following areas: LLM post-training and alignment, model evaluation, test-time scaling, agent systems, or large-scale data curation and optimization.
• Demonstrated research ability through publications, substantial research projects, or internships.
• Ability to work independently on open-ended research problems, from problem formulation to experimental execution.
Preferred:
• Strong interest in foundation models and data-centric AI, particularly in how large models can improve over time through better data, feedback, and system design. Relevant directions include data flywheels, continual learning, data curation and valuation, and the co-design of algorithms and infrastructure.
• A strong publication record with multiple first-author papers at top-tier venues in AI, machine learning, NLP, data mining, or related fields.
• Internship or research experience at an accredited research labs or within a technology companies, ideally with experience with scalable ML systems, especially those involving real-world deployment, feedback loops, or human-in-the-loop pipelines.
• Strong motivation to connect research with practice, and to build end-to-end AI systems spanning modeling, data, evaluation, and infrastructure.
Company:
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Beijing, CHN, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.