Research Scientist, AI Infrastructure - Internship

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

14–17 paid holidays/yr

Job summary

ByteDance’s Seed team is building scalable infrastructure for large-scale model training, evaluation, and inference. The role emphasizes distributed systems, data processing, and lifecycle management in a cutting-edge AI environment.

As part of the Seed team, you will collaborate on co-designing systems and algorithms to improve foundation model performance, with exposure to high-performance inference and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree with expected graduation date in 2027.
• Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python.
• Demonstrated interest or project experience in relevant areas.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable infrastructure for large-scale model training, evaluation, and inference.
• Optimize distributed training systems across compute, memory, and communication.
• Improve system reliability, efficiency, and observability for large-scale workloads.
• Develop frameworks for evaluation, data processing, and model lifecycle management.
• Co-design systems and algorithms to improve performance of foundation models.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Math/Engineering

Job description

ByteDance’s Seed team is building scalable infrastructure for large-scale model training, evaluation, and inference. The role emphasizes distributed systems, data processing, and lifecycle management in a cutting-edge AI environment.

As part of the Seed team, you will collaborate on co-designing systems and algorithms to improve foundation model performance, with exposure to high-performance inference and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies.