Software Engineer, Agentic Search & Data Analytics

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance's Seattle-based Search team is seeking a talented engineer to build Agentic Search and Analytics systems, integrating planning, retrieval, and reasoning across multi-source data. You will work on a platform aligned with AI-driven transformation and enterprise-grade cloud search services.

Join a team delivering next-generation Agentic Search products and contributing to open-source ecosystems, including OpenSearch and Milvus, with collaboration across researchers and engineers to push

Qualifications

• B.S in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Strong coding, data structures, and algorithm skills; proficient in Python, Java, C++, or Golang.
• Familiarity with LLMs, Agents, Search, RAG, Information Retrieval, or Machine Learning.
• Strong problem-solving, learning, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build Agentic Search and Analytics systems that combine planning, retrieval, reasoning, tool execution, and iterative agentic loops.
• Develop multi-source and multimodal search across structured data, documents, images, audio, and video.
• Build a unified semantic layer for heterogeneous enterprise data, including entities, metrics, metadata, and relationships.
• Explore semantic accumulation and self-evolving agents that continuously improve through interactions, feedback, memory, and historical executions.

Skills

Strong coding & algorithms

Python

Java

C++

Golang

Data structures

Communication

Education

B.S in Computer Science / AI / ML

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Milvus

Faiss

Qdrant

Job description

ByteDance's Seattle-based Search team is seeking a talented engineer to build Agentic Search and Analytics systems, integrating planning, retrieval, and reasoning across multi-source data. You will work on a platform aligned with AI-driven transformation and enterprise-grade cloud search services.

Join a team delivering next-generation Agentic Search products and contributing to open-source ecosystems, including OpenSearch and Milvus, with collaboration across researchers and engineers to push