Drimva

ByteDance

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer AI

San Jose, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Experience
5+ years of relevant industry or research experience.
Education
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, or a related field.

About the job

Develops AI systems and agents for code generation, testing, debugging, and other software engineering tasks to improve developer productivity.

What you'll do

  • Build and improve machine learning and large language model systems and developer agents for software engineering workflows.
  • Improve model and agent performance using techniques such as retrieval, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and tool-use design.
  • Create training and evaluation data pipelines and apply advances in AI to developer productivity problems.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of relevant industry or research experience in machine learning, large language models, code intelligence, AI-powered developer tools, or related areas.
  • Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, C++, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • Experience owning complex machine learning projects end-to-end and building scalable, reliable machine learning systems or AI-powered applications.

Nice to have

  • Experience building AI systems for software engineering, such as code generation, coding agents, unit test generation, debugging, or code review.
  • Experience with large language models, model improvement or post-training techniques, agentic systems, or large-scale training and evaluation pipelines.

Tools

Python, Go, Java, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, MCP

AI focus

Builds and improves LLM-based developer tools and agents for code generation, testing, debugging, code understanding, and multi-step software engineering; includes model improvement, agent design, and training and evaluation data pipelines.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)