AI-Native Database Engineer Intern

Bytedance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 27,552,000 - 41,328,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance invites interns to join the database R&D team in San Jose, contributing to AI-native database systems that power global products like TikTok and CapCut. You\'ll work on cutting-edge kernels, distributed storage, and backend support for AI workloads, collaborating with PMs and engineers across multiple teams.

The internship offers hands-on experience, practical learning, and exposure to real-world challenges, with a rolling application review.

Qualifications

• Pursuing undergraduate or master's in CS, CE, or related field.
• Knowledge of database kernel, distributed systems, query processing and optimization, multi-threaded programming.
• Experience coding in C/C++, Golang, Java, Python.

Responsibilities

• Develop kernel modules or features for AI-native database systems.
• Solve large-scale cloud infrastructure problems.
• Collaborate with PMs and engineers to build backend support for AI-native database services.
• Participate in technical discussions related to the team\'s product and engineering work.

Skills

DB kernel

Distributed systems

Query processing

Multi-threaded programming

C/C++

Golang

Java

Python

Education

Undergraduate/Master's in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Faiss

Milvus

DuckDB

ClickHouse

TiKV

RocksDB

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

ByteDance invites interns to join the database R&D team in San Jose, contributing to AI-native database systems that power global products like TikTok and CapCut. You\'ll work on cutting-edge kernels, distributed storage, and backend support for AI workloads, collaborating with PMs and engineers across multiple teams.

The internship offers hands-on experience, practical learning, and exposure to real-world challenges, with a rolling application review.