Student Researcher (AI Foundation Model Infrastructure - Seed) - 2027 Start (PhD)

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 64,781 - 92,264; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

Housing allowance

Job summary

ByteDance seeks a campus intern to join the Seed Infrastructures team in Seattle, WA. You will research infrastructure for large-scale AI models, collaborating with researchers to improve training, inference, and compilation frameworks.

The role emphasizes strong programming, Python or C/C++, and systems knowledge, with a pathway to contribute to distributed systems and performance optimization in a cutting-edge research environment.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills and solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and systems, proficient in Python or C/C++.
• Research or internship experience related to large-scale systems, inference optimization, compilers, or performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on infrastructure and systems for large-scale models.
• Explore methods to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability across training platforms, inference systems, compilers, and distributed systems.
• Design and prototype system components, algorithms, or frameworks.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Algorithms

Data structures

Systems

Education

PhD candidate in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team: The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies for AI foundation models.

• Conduct research on infrastructure and systems for large-scale models.
• Explore methods to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability across areas such as training platforms, inference systems, compilers, and distributed systems.
• Design and prototype system components, algorithms, or frameworks.
• Collaborate with the team to advance research directions.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills and solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and systems, proficient in Python or C/C++.
• Research or internship experience related to large-scale systems, inference optimization, compilers, or performance optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong problem-solving and engineering skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a research environment.

Job Information

For Pay Transparency: Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern. The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $57- $57.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country of work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year, 40 if hired in the second half of the year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

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.

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