PhD Research Intern: AI Systems & Scale Infrastructure

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 64,781 - 92,264; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

Housing allowance

Job summary

ByteDance seeks a campus intern to join the Seed Infrastructures team in Seattle, WA. You will research infrastructure for large-scale AI models, collaborating with researchers to improve training, inference, and compilation frameworks.

The role emphasizes strong programming, Python or C/C++, and systems knowledge, with a pathway to contribute to distributed systems and performance optimization in a cutting-edge research environment.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills and solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and systems, proficient in Python or C/C++.
• Research or internship experience related to large-scale systems, inference optimization, compilers, or performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on infrastructure and systems for large-scale models.
• Explore methods to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability across training platforms, inference systems, compilers, and distributed systems.
• Design and prototype system components, algorithms, or frameworks.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Algorithms

Data structures

Systems

Education

PhD candidate in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

ByteDance seeks a campus intern to join the Seed Infrastructures team in Seattle, WA. You will research infrastructure for large-scale AI models, collaborating with researchers to improve training, inference, and compilation frameworks.

The role emphasizes strong programming, Python or C/C++, and systems knowledge, with a pathway to contribute to distributed systems and performance optimization in a cutting-edge research environment.