Senior Platform Architect - Enterprise AI Agent

ByteDance; New York (NY); On-site; USD 218,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking an architect-level contributor to lead the design, development, and adoption of enterprise AI agent capabilities, AI harness platforms, and RAG-based knowledge bases across the organization.

This role requires deep technical architecture expertise, hands-on AI platform experience, and product management capabilities to drive enterprise-wide adoption and ensure scalable, secure AI offerings.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years software development experience preferably with Golang or Python.
• Experience driving enterprise AI adoption across multiple business units or internal product teams.
• Prior experience combining architect-level technical ownership with product management responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of AI system tradeoffs, including cost, latency, accuracy, reliability, safety, and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and adoption of enterprise AI agent platforms and AI harness capabilities.
• Define architecture roadmap for AI agent platforms, orchestration, tool integration, and governance.
• Partner with product, engineering, data, security, and business teams to identify high-value AI use cases and drive production.
• Establish architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for enterprise AI platforms.
• Provide technical leadership on reliability, observability, cost optimization, privacy, and responsible AI practices.
• Apply product management thinking to define platform vision, adoption metrics, and rollout plans.

Skills

Architect-level ownership

Golang

Python

Product management

Enterprise AI adoption

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Responsibilities

The DCS platform team's goal is to build all the necessary and advanced tooling to support full-lifecycle operation and management of domestic and overseas data centers, covering data center infrastructure operation and maintenance, server delivery, server operation, asset and resource management, platform tooling, as well as cloud services and server system services.

We are looking for an architect-level contributor to lead the design, development, and adoption of enterprise AI agent capabilities, AI harness platforms, RAG-based knowledge base systems, and emerging AI technologies across the organization.

This role requires deep technical architecture expertise, strong hands-on understanding of AI platforms, and product management capabilities to identify business needs, shape platform capabilities, and drive enterprise-wide adoption.

Job Responsibilities

• Possess an in-depth understanding of the history and industry trends in Server Operations and Data Center operations platform development from production point of view. Be familiar with Volcano (Volcengine) and edge server / Data Center requirements and their differences globally. Acquire knowledge of both domestic and non-domestic GPU hardware architectures, firmware baselines, and performance stress testing. Master high-power-density and high-compute-density rack-level solutions, including cold-plate liquid cooling integrated with air cooling, PowerShelf, SideCar, and RDMA copper / optical interconnects such as NVLINK or HCCS. Leverage the AI Factory approach to address challenges at the AI infrastructure layer.
• Define the technical architecture and roadmap for enterprise AI agent platforms, including AI harness, agent orchestration, tool integration, workflow automation, memory, evaluation, observability, and governance capabilities.
• Partner with product, engineering, data, security, and business teams to identify high-value AI use cases and guide them from concept to production.
• Establish architecture principles, design patterns, best practices, and governance standards for enterprise AI agent and RAG-based application development.
• Provide technical leadership on AI reliability, scalability, observability, cost optimization, privacy, security, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
• Apply product management thinking to define platform vision, user journeys, feature priorities, adoption metrics, rollout plans, and feedback loops.
• Influence stakeholders across business and technology teams to align AI platform capabilities with enterprise strategy.
• Mentor engineers and platform teams through architecture reviews, technical deep dives, prototypes, and implementation guidance.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working with two or more of the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, networking systems, developing large software systems.
• 5+ years software development experience preferably with Golang or Python.
• Experience driving enterprise AI adoption across multiple business units or internal product teams.
• Prior experience combining architect-level technical ownership with product management responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of AI system tradeoffs, including cost, latency, accuracy, reliability, safety, and user experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or architecting enterprise AI agent platforms, AI harness platforms, RAG-based knowledge bases, model gateways, evaluation platforms, or internal AI developer platforms.
• Deep familiarity with modern LLM ecosystems, including agent frameworks, vector databases, embedding models, reranking models, model routing, evaluation tooling, and AI governance.
• Experience with enterprise knowledge management systems, document intelligence, semantic search, taxonomy design, or knowledge quality evaluation.
• Experience with security, compliance, data privacy, access control, auditability, and responsible AI practices in enterprise AI systems.
• Publications, patents, open-source contributions, or recognized technical leadership in AI, platform architecture, or enterprise software are a plus.

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.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

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

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $218400 - $480000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

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:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

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