Frontend Engineer - Machine Learning Platform
ByteDance
Responsibilities
About the Team The Data-AML-FE team builds and maintains our company's critical Machine Learning Platform — the foundational infrastructure powering our recommendation systems, advertising platforms, and search technologies. These core business functions impact millions of users worldwide. We support end-to-end deep learning workflows, including code development, testing, distributed training of large-scale models, and seamless model deployment. We are seeking a thoughtful, product-aware Frontend Engineer to design and build the interfaces that drive our machine learning ecosystem. In this role, you will create powerful, intuitive, and highly performant web applications that transform complex ML workflows into simple, efficient user experiences. Your work will directly translate the sophisticated needs of algorithm engineers and data scientists into elegant solutions, accelerating innovation across our product portfolio. Responsibilities: - Design and implement robust frontend architecture for our core ML and deep learning platforms, ensuring high concurrency and optimal performance - Contribute to the development of frontend engineering systems, including performance optimization, build tooling, and release pipelines to enable a stable, efficient development environment - Create intuitive user interfaces that empower algorithm engineers to debug, deploy, and manage models with ease - Collaborate with backend engineers, ML researchers, and product managers to deliver end-to-end solutions for complex ML workflows - Drive frontend best practices, including code quality, accessibility, and responsive design
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field - 3+ years of frontend development experience, preferably with enterprise services or machine learning-related projects - Expertise in modern JavaScript/TypeScript with deep understanding of core language features and latest ECMAScript standards - Proficiency with React or Vue frameworks, including their underlying principles and best practices - Solid understanding of the frontend ecosystem, including build tools like Webpack or Vite - Hands-on experience with frontend performance optimization strategies - Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams - Passion for learning new technologies and solving complex engineering challenges Preferred Qualifications: - Experience building complex, data-intensive applications or frontend platforms for enterprise services or machine learning - Familiarity with data visualization tools such as ECharts, D3.js, or AntV - Full-stack capabilities with backend development experience (NodeJS/Python/Go) - Knowledge of advanced frontend topics: micro-frontends, monitoring, or e2e testing frameworks - Experience maintaining open-source projects or active participation in the technical community
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $359720 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request