Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (AML-Engine-Orchestration) - 2027 Start

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance is building a Data-AML-Engine Orchestration platform to power online model serving across TikTok and other ByteDance products. You will contribute to orchestration, scheduling, and resource management systems connecting heterogeneous compute with production ML workloads.

Join a team focused on scalable infrastructure—enabling low latency, high availability, and efficient GPU usage while tackling challenging distributed systems problems across multiple clusters and services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, or related field.
• Proficiency in Go, C++, or Python with strong CS fundamentals.
• Familiarity with Linux, OS concepts, networks and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on and exploratory abilities with code, metrics, logs, and profiling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build foundational orchestration capabilities for ML platforms (Kubernetes Operators, containers, jobs/stateful workloads).
• Create multi-tenant resource and quota systems; improve GPU utilization and cost efficiency via resource pooling and FinOps.
• Develop lifecycle orchestration for online model serving (deployment, upgrades, autoscaling, disaster recovery).
• Build serving orchestration and traffic management for disaggregated clusters (topology-aware scheduling, KV Cache affinity, QoS/SLA).

Skills

Go

C++

Python

Distributed systems

Linux

Data structures

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Container runtimes

Volcano

Koordinator

OpenKruise

Model serving systems

Job description

Responsibilities

The Data-AML-Engine Orchestration team builds large-scale machine learning infrastructure that powers online model serving across ByteDance products, including TikTok. We develop the orchestration, scheduling, and resource management systems that connect heterogeneous compute infrastructure with production ML workloads.

Responsibilities

The Data-AML-Engine Orchestration team builds large-scale machine learning infrastructure that powers online model serving across ByteDance products, including TikTok. We develop the orchestration, scheduling, and resource management systems that connect heterogeneous compute infrastructure with production ML workloads. You will work on systems that directly affect GPU utilization, serving latency and availability, infrastructure reliability, and MLE productivity. Depending on your background and interests, you may focus on one or more of the following areas. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

Responsibilities

• Design and build foundational orchestration capabilities for machine learning platforms, including Kubernetes Operators, container runtimes, and lifecycle management for jobs, services, and stateful workloads.
• Build multi-tenant resource and quota systems that support priorities, preemption, fair sharing, elasticity, and cross-cluster scheduling. Improve GPU utilization and cost efficiency through resource pooling and FinOps.
• Build lifecycle orchestration for online model serving, including model and image distribution, deployment, upgrades, rollback, autoscaling, multi-cluster operation, and disaster recovery.
• Build serving orchestration and traffic management capabilities for disaggregated serving clusters, including topology-aware scheduling, KV Cache affinity, intelligent request routing, and QoS/SLA management.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, C++, or Python, with a solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
• Familiarity with Linux and a foundational understanding of operating systems, computer networks, concurrent programming, and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on and exploratory abilities, with a willingness to investigate systems through source code, metrics, logs, profiling, and experiments.
• A systematic and quantitative approach to problem solving, with the ability to define measurements, test hypotheses, and validate system improvements.
• Demonstrated ownership and collaboration through coursework, research, internships, open-source contributions, or other engineering projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Kubernetes, container runtimes, resource scheduling, quota management, multi-tenant systems, or FinOps.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects such as Kubernetes, Volcano, Koordinator, or OpenKruise.
• Experience with model serving systems such as vLLM, SGLang, Triton, KServe, or Ray Serve, or an understanding of KV Cache, Continuous Batching, Prefill/Decode disaggregation, or model parallelism.
• Experience with online services, gateways, traffic management, autoscaling,