Agentic Search & AI Engineer

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking talented engineers to join the Search team to build Agentic Search and analytics systems. You will work on multi-source and multimodal search across structured data, documents, images, audio, and video, and develop a unified semantic layer for enterprise data.

The role emphasizes evolving agents through interaction, memory, and historical executions. Ideal candidates have a strong CS/ML background, coding skills in Python/Java/C++/Go, and familiarity with LLMs, IR, and

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, AI, ML or related field.
• Strong coding, data structures and algorithms.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or Golang.
• Familiarity with LLMs, Agents, Search, RAG, IR or ML.

Responsibilities

• Build Agentic Search and Analytics systems integrating planning, retrieval, reasoning, tool execution and agentic loops.
• Develop multi-source and multimodal search across structured data, documents, images, audio and video.
• Create a unified semantic layer for heterogeneous enterprise data (entities, metrics, metadata, relationships).
• Explore semantic accumulation and self-evolving agents with feedback, memory and history.

Skills

Coding skills

Python

Java

C++

Golang

LLMs

Information Retrieval

Agents

Problem solving

Communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science/AI/ML or related

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Milvus

Faiss

Qdrant

Job description

ByteDance is seeking talented engineers to join the Search team to build Agentic Search and analytics systems. You will work on multi-source and multimodal search across structured data, documents, images, audio, and video, and develop a unified semantic layer for enterprise data.

The role emphasizes evolving agents through interaction, memory, and historical executions. Ideal candidates have a strong CS/ML background, coding skills in Python/Java/C++/Go, and familiarity with LLMs, IR, and