AI Infra Engineer Intern: Scale Smart Compute

Bytedance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 2,755,000 - 4,959,000; Part time

Job summary

ByteDance in San Jose invites students for a 12-week internship in our Technology team. You will help improve our AI-driven scheduling platform and work on ways to optimize compute, memory, and power usage.

The role offers hands-on experience with real-world challenges and exposure to scalable infrastructure. We are seeking interns who can contribute to building reliable tooling for a globally operated platform, and who are curious about AI/ML infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/ Master’s in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Able to commit to a 12-week internship during Summer 2027.
• Experience coding in Go, C++, Python, Java, or C#.

Responsibilities

• Help make our intelligent, AI-driven scheduler smarter at placing and balancing workloads.
• Explore new ways to get more useful work out of the same hardware — smarter use of compute, memory, or power.
• Build tools that help a global platform run reliably and increasingly manage itself, including AI-agent-assisted automation.

Skills

Go

C++

Python

Java

C#

Education

Undergraduate/ Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

Containers

Job description

ByteDance in San Jose invites students for a 12-week internship in our Technology team. You will help improve our AI-driven scheduling platform and work on ways to optimize compute, memory, and power usage.

The role offers hands-on experience with real-world challenges and exposure to scalable infrastructure. We are seeking interns who can contribute to building reliable tooling for a globally operated platform, and who are curious about AI/ML infrastructure.