ByteDance
ByteDance

Production Engineer - Applied Machine Learning

RoleMachine Learning
LevelMid Level
LocationSan Jose, Canada, United States
WorkOn-site
TypeRegular
PostedToday
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About the role

The mission of our AML team is to push next-generation recommendation-based algorithms and platform for the company. We also drive substantial impact for core businesses of the company. Currently we are looking for Production Engineers to join our team to support and advance that mission

Responsibilities:

  • System Stability & Production Management: Responsible for the production management and stability assurance of AML (Applied Machine Learning) training, inference, and storage systems. This covers core pipelines including scheduling and orchestration, K8s/GPU clusters, distributed training, online inference serving, and ParameterServer/NoSQL storage.
  • Reliability Engineering: Build and maintain mechanisms for SLO/SLA, observability, alerting, On-call processes, fault diagnosis, auto-healing, disaster recovery, and incident reviews (post-mortems).
  • Engineering Excellence: Drive engineering capabilities such as CI/CD, canary releases, auto-rollback, automated inspections, pre-flight checks, capacity forecasting, and elastic auto-scaling.
  • Resource & Cost Management: Oversee resource governance across GPU/CPU/storage/network, including quota management, cost attribution, and performance tuning, to improve system availability, resource utilization, and overall R&D efficiency.

Requirements:

Minimum Qualification(s):

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or related fields.
  • Familiar with Linux and proficient in at least one of the following programming/scripting languages: Shell, Python, Go, or C++.
  • Understanding of machine learning training/inference architectures, Kubernetes, GPU clusters, or distributed storage systems.
  • Proven experience in online troubleshooting, performance analysis, and building automation platforms.
  • Strong sense of responsibility, clear logical thinking, and the ability to drive the resolution of complex issues across cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualification(s):

  • Experience with large-scale training/inference/storage platforms, SLO governance, FinOps, NoSQL, or open-source infrastructure is highly preferred.

Required skills

Manufacturing engineering

Process improvement

Technical documentation

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