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 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 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 towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.
About the team
As a core member of our LLM Global Data Team, you'll be at the heart of our operations. Gain first-hand experience in understanding the intricacies of training Large Language Models (LLMs) with diverse data sets. Through our carefully designed rotation program, you'll witness how high-quality data is meticulously crafted and used. After completing your rotation, you will have the chance to select your area of expertise. This will be your stepping stone to lead, train, or oversee larger data operation projects.
Your Role Will Involve:
1. Gaining direct experience in data production, including drafting, revising, and quality-checking, to understand the synergy between humans and data in LLM training.
2. Developing specialized skills in one of our data formats and content verticals, and delivering high-quality data independently.
3. Collaborating with product managers and engineers to assess and enhance the effectiveness of our operational processes, including conducting quality and productivity improvement experiments.
4. Leading one or multiple taskforces or projects simultaneously following successful incubation. The project management work includes but is not limited to: aligning between cross-functional teams to set quality measurement and expectations of a project, assembling a taskforce for specific projects, tracking and managing progress of projects.
5. Leading or supporting general operation improvement projects across data domains.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Excellent English writing and critique skills.
2. Comfortable working in a project-based fast-paced environment, where quality standards iterate quickly with research and experiment progress.
3. Comfortable with meeting deadlines, multi-tasking, and generating creative solutions, including the use of technology and tools, to enhance the quality of both individual and team outputs.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Experience as project managers in content relevant project or operation management roles is preferred. Experience in journalism, teaching, writing, text editing is highly valued. Experience as annotators for leading AI/LLM companies is strongly preferred.
2. Candidates should be intelligent, diligent, and skilled in providing guidelines, analyzing cases and structuring complex operational improvements.
3. A deep interest in LLMs, human behavior and user experience is essential. The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic learner who finds engagement with diverse case studies and annotators stimulating.
Note: This role requires a paper test prior to interviews.
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.
