Agentic Search Engineer - AI, Data & Multimodal

Bytedance; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking a Software Engineer for Data Agent and Agentic Search in San Jose. You will contribute to a fully managed, scalable search platform supporting vector and full-text retrieval, analytics, and AI-driven features.

The role emphasizes building Agentic search products, with strong ties to RAG and memory-based reasoning. You will collaborate with a world-class team on distributed systems, AI models, and search technologies, joining ByteDance's Technology group.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: B.S in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Strong coding, data structures, and algorithm skills; proficient in Python, Java, C++, or Golang.
• Familiarity with LLMs, Agents, Search, RAG, Information Retrieval, or Machine Learning.

Responsibilities

• Build Agentic Search and Analytics systems that combine planning, retrieval, reasoning, tool execution, and iterative agentic loops.
• Develop multi-source and multimodal search across structured data, documents, images, audio, and video.
• Build a unified semantic layer for heterogeneous enterprise data, including entities, metrics, metadata, and relationships.
• Explore semantic accumulation and self-evolving agents that continuously improve through interactions, feedback, memory, and historical executions.

Skills

Coding skills

Data structures

Algorithms

Python

Java

C++

Golang

LLMs

Agents

Search

RAG

Information Retrieval

Machine Learning

Communication skills

Problem solving

Learning

Education

B.S in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Milvus

Faiss

Qdrant

Job description

ByteDance is seeking a Software Engineer for Data Agent and Agentic Search in San Jose. You will contribute to a fully managed, scalable search platform supporting vector and full-text retrieval, analytics, and AI-driven features.

The role emphasizes building Agentic search products, with strong ties to RAG and memory-based reasoning. You will collaborate with a world-class team on distributed systems, AI models, and search technologies, joining ByteDance's Technology group.