PhD AI Infra Research Intern: LLM Training & Inference

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Housing allowance

10 paid holidays per year

Job summary

ByteDance offers PhD interns a hands-on opportunity to contribute to AI infra, training and inference platforms, and AI agent infrastructure within the Compute division. You will build prototypes, verify performance, and showcase findings through academic publications.

We seek PhD candidates who can work independently, communicate effectively, and collaborate with teams while contributing to cutting-edge cloud infrastructure research and development.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in LLM training/inference, physical AI infra, simulation or RL is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and complete projects from start to finish in a timely manner.
• Good communication and teamwork to convey technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Explore and develop key technologies for our AI Infra stack, including AI training and inference platforms, AI Agent infrastructure.
• Build prototypes to verify functionality and performance of key components or innovations.
• Showcase research findings and products through academic publications.

Skills

LLM training

AI Infra

Independent work

Research collaboration

Education

PhD in Computer Science / related

Tools

PyTorch

vLLM

SGlang

Job description

ByteDance offers PhD interns a hands-on opportunity to contribute to AI infra, training and inference platforms, and AI agent infrastructure within the Compute division. You will build prototypes, verify performance, and showcase findings through academic publications.

We seek PhD candidates who can work independently, communicate effectively, and collaborate with teams while contributing to cutting-edge cloud infrastructure research and development.