Senior ML Systems Scientist — High-Performance Inference

ByteDance

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 212,800 - 387,600

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) match
Parental leave
Disability insurance
Wellbeing benefits
Paid holidays

Job summary

ByteDance Technology in San Jose is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to lead machine learning system development. You will help build and optimize large-scale distributed ML training and inference infrastructure, integrating GPU/NPU/RDMA and storage to run complex models reliably.

Join a global team and contribute to cutting-edge LLM/AI system work while enhancing performance analysis, distributed systems, and decision-making processes across multiple regions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or above in computer/electronics/automation/software, etc.
  • Proficient in C/C++, algorithms and data structures; familiar with Python.
  • Understand basic principles of deep learning and PyTorch frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and optimize LLM inference framework.
  • Improve GPU/CUDA performance to create a high-performance LLM inference engine.

Skills

C/C++
Python
Algorithms & data structures
Deep learning basics
PyTorch

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TensorRT-LLM
ORCA
VLLM

Job description

ByteDance Technology in San Jose is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to lead machine learning system development. You will help build and optimize large-scale distributed ML training and inference infrastructure, integrating GPU/NPU/RDMA and storage to run complex models reliably.

Join a global team and contribute to cutting-edge LLM/AI system work while enhancing performance analysis, distributed systems, and decision-making processes across multiple regions.

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