Cloud Acceleration Engineer Graduate (DPU & AI Infra) - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance is a global technology company known for its innovative products like TikTok and CapCut. They are seeking a Cloud Acceleration Engineer Graduate to join their DPU team, focusing on developing high-performance network software and collaborating on software-hardware co-design solutions for cloud and AI computing.

What you'll do:

• Design and develop DPU network software with a focus on high performance, low latency, and reliability
• Collaborate with hardware teams to build software-hardware co-design solutions for networking and storage acceleration
• Explore AI/ML infrastructure acceleration, leveraging DPUs, GPUs, and custom hardware to optimize distributed training and inference
• Drive end-to-end performance optimization, from OS kernels and drivers to user-space runtime systems
• Contribute to architecture design, technical proposals, and long-term research directions

What they're looking for:

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience (exception for Ph.D. with strong background)
• Proficiency in C/C++ development and debugging
• Strong Linux systems development experience
• Solid understanding of compute, network architecture, and operating systems
• Background in at least one of: software-hardware co-design, distributed systems, high-performance networking, or AI/ML systems
• Experience with software-hardware co-design (networking, storage, or distributed compute)
• Hands-on experience with network virtualization (OVS, SR-IOV, eBPF)
• Familiarity with DPDK and high-performance user-space networking
• Bonus points for hardware acceleration experience, FPGA/ASIC/GPU/CUDA
• Bonus points for experience with NCCL Collectives along with AI communication patterns and parallelization techniques
• Proven experience designing and building AI/ML infrastructure related but not limited to inference kv cache system, data preprocessing system

Benefits:

• 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.
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)