Editorial summary

The company is seeking a Graduate Machine Learning Engineer for a role focused on platform governance within its global e-commerce division, with an anticipated start date in 2026. The position involves developing and implementing machine learning models to support platform integrity and user experience. Candidates should possess a BS or MS degree in a relevant field and have a strong foundation in machine learning and data analysis. The role offers a salary of 16,000.

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Job description

[This job id 20328 first appeared in Job-Q.com on 16 Jul 2026]

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico 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 ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

Team Introduction

The team use the most advanced AI technology to combat various risks/violations in our e-commerce platform, maintain platform security, build a good e-commerce ecosystem, and empower business teams to improve work efficiency. We pursue the ultimate risk detection capability. The fairness and sustainability of the e-commerce ecosystem, high-quality content and merchandise are areas where we are constantly striving for improvement.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

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 our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities

- Responsible for using algorithms to mine, identify, and predict risks and low-quality merchants, products, and creators in e-commerce scenarios, and assist businesses in managing and controlling them.

- Responsible for using algorithms to identify events and behaviors that affect product experience and efficiency, and building data models to help create a favorable ecosystem and support business operations.

- Participate in building data for various entities such as e-commerce live streaming/video, products, merchants, and creators, building large-scale network/feature sequence models to support business scenarios such as content understanding, multimodal representation, community mining, and solve problems related to products, live streaming, and video management, and provide support for them.

- Participate in building a large-scale graph storage and graph learning platform to improve relationship building and governance within the e-commerce community.

- Explore and research cutting-edge technologies in machine learning/graph learning/sequence learning and related fields, implement these technologies in practical business scenarios, and support the production of scalable and optimised machine learning models.

Minimum Qualifications

- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

- Solid coding skills, familiar with deep learning/graph neural network/machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, DGL, pyg, sklearn, etc.

- Familiar with one or more algorithms in machine learning/graph learning/sequence learning, such as graph modeling, timing signal modeling, node/subgraph classification, community mining, representation learning, self-supervised/semi-supervised learning, with a certain depth and breadth.

- Relevant industry experience with solid theoretical foundation of machine learning.

Preferred Qualifications

- Good sense of teamwork and communication skills, practical experience in relevant business scenarios is preferred.

- Published papers in high-level computer science conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NIPS, AAAI, etc.) or have competition experience are preferred.

- Familiar with the application of related algorithms in data mining, search recommendation, content understanding, and governance risk control preferred.

- Skilled in numpy and pandas for modeling experiments, familiar with big data tools such as Hive, Spark, Hadoop preferred.

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