Research Intern (AI Compute Efficiency & Scheduling) - 2027 Start (PhD)

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 4,959,000 - 8,266,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Housing allowance

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking PhD students for a paid 12‑week internship focused on AI/ML infrastructure and intelligent scheduling. You will work on a real project central to our compute platform, contributing to research, tooling, and automation that improve efficiency at scale.

Interns gain hands‑on experience with a dynamic program blending hands‑on learning, community building, and professional development events, collaborating with industry experts and shaping the future of our AI powered

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD 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.
• As an intern, you’ll contribute to our products and research and engage with the organization’s future plans and emerging technologies.

Skills

Go

C++

Python

Java

C#

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Responsibilities

We decide how ByteDance's massive fleet of computers gets used — turning hundreds of clusters and millions of daily workloads (microservices, big data, and large AI/LLM jobs) into a system that’s highly efficient, reliable, and increasingly self‑managing, powered by our own intelligent scheduling platform Godel (open‑sourced to the community). Our mission: get the most value out of every unit of computing power, at a scale few places in the world can offer, and let AI increasingly help run the infrastructure.

Responsibilities

We decide how ByteDance's massive fleet of computers gets used — turning hundreds of clusters and millions of daily workloads (microservices, big data, and large AI/LLM jobs) into a system that’s highly efficient, reliable, and increasingly self‑managing, powered by our own intelligent scheduling platform Godel (open‑sourced to the community). Our mission: get the most value out of every unit of computing power, at a scale few places in the world can offer, and let AI increasingly help run the infrastructure.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization’s future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands‑on learning, enriching community‑building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

What You Might Work On

One Focused, Real Project Within Our Scope — For Example

• 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.

Why This Role Matters

The AI era runs on compute — and using it efficiently is one of the defining challenges for our company and the whole industry. Our team owns that challenge at ByteDance’s global scale, making the infrastructure behind TikTok and our AI/LLM products faster, smarter, and far more efficient. As an intern, you’ll get a real project at the center of it.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD 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#.

Preferred Qualifications

• Intent to return to your degree program after the internship.
• Strong fundamentals in systems, distributed computing, or software engineering — shown through internships, work, research, competitions, or projects.
• Curiosity about large‑scale or AI/ML infrastructure; exposure to Linux, containers, or Kubernetes is a plus but not required.
• High creativity and quick problem‑solving.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60- $60.

• Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more.
• Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year).
• Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.
• The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request