Software Engineer Graduate (AML-Engine-Orchestration) - 2027 Start (PhD)

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance's Data-AML-Engine Orchestration team builds large-scale machine learning infrastructure powering online model serving across ByteDance products, including TikTok. You will design and implement foundational orchestration capabilities, focusing on Kubernetes Operators, container runtimes, and lifecycle management for jobs, services, and stateful workloads.

Join us to optimize GPU utilization, improve latency and reliability, and grow your expertise in distributed systems and FinOps while

Qualifications

• PhD or PhD candidate in a related technical field.
• Proficiency in Go, C++, or Python with solid CS fundamentals.
• Experience with Linux, OS concepts, and distributed systems.
• Ability to explore systems via code, metrics, logs, and profiling.
• Strong problem-solving with quantifiable measurements.
• Demonstrated ownership through projects or internships.

Responsibilities

• Design and build foundational orchestration for ML platforms, including Kubernetes Operators and lifecycle management.
• Build multi-tenant resource and quota systems to improve GPU utilization and cost efficiency.
• Implement lifecycle orchestration for online model serving, including deployment, upgrades, and disaster recovery.
• Develop serving orchestration, topology-aware scheduling, and QoS/SLA management.

Skills

Go

C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Distributed systems

Linux

Education

PhD in Computer Science / Software Engineering / AI

Job description

Responsibilities

The Data-AML-Engine Orchestration team builds large-scale machine learning infrastructure that powers online model serving across ByteDance products, including TikTok. We develop the orchestration, scheduling, and resource management systems that connect heterogeneous compute infrastructure with production ML workloads.

The Data-AML-Engine Orchestration team builds large-scale machine learning infrastructure that powers online model serving across ByteDance products, including TikTok. We develop the orchestration, scheduling, and resource management systems that connect heterogeneous compute infrastructure with production ML workloads.

You will work on systems that directly affect GPU utilization, serving latency and availability, infrastructure reliability, and MLE productivity. Depending on your background and interests, you may focus on one or more of the following areas.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Responsibilities

• Design and build foundational orchestration capabilities for machine learning platforms, including Kubernetes Operators, container runtimes, and lifecycle management for jobs, services, and stateful workloads.
• Build multi-tenant resource and quota systems that support priorities, preemption, fair sharing, elasticity, and cross-cluster scheduling. Improve GPU utilization and cost efficiency through resource pooling and FinOps.
• Build lifecycle orchestration for online model serving, including model and image distribution, deployment, upgrades, rollback, autoscaling, multi-cluster operation, and disaster recovery.
• Build serving orchestration and traffic management capabilities for disaggregated serving clusters, including topology‑aware scheduling, KV Cache affinity, intelligent request routing, and QoS/SLA management.

Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, C++, or Python, with a solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
• Familiarity with Linux and a foundational understanding of operating systems, computer networks, concurrent programming, and distributed systems.
• Strong hands‑on and exploratory abilities, with a willingness to investigate systems through source code, metrics, logs, profiling, and experiments.
• A systematic and quantitative approach to problem solving, with the ability to define measurements, test hypotheses, and validate system improvements.
• Demonstrated ownership and collaboration through coursework, research, internships, open‑source contributions, or other engineering projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes, container runtimes, resource scheduling, quota management, multi‑tenant systems, or FinOps.
• Contributions to open‑source infrastructure projects such as Kubernetes, Volcano, Koordinator, or OpenKruise.
• Experience with model serving systems such as vLLM, SGLang, Triton, KServe, or Ray Serve, or an understanding of KV Cache, Continuous Batching, Prefill/Decode disaggregation, or model parallelism.
• Experience with online services, gateways, traffic management, autoscaling, performance optimization, or highly available distributed systems.
• Experience with GPU/NPU programming, heterogeneous resource scheduling, model distribution, or inference performance analysis.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $316800 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:

• 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.

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