Dev AI Software Engineer Graduate (Dev Infra US) - 2027 Start

ByteDance is a company founded in 2012, dedicated to inspiring creativity and enriching life through innovative products. The role involves developing AI-powered developer tools to enhance engineering productivity and improve software development processes.

What you'll do:

• Develop and deliver internal AI-powered developer tools, including agentic workflows, coding agents, IDE integrations, and command-line experiences, to improve engineering productivity across the software development lifecycle
• Improve AI system performance through prompt, context and harness engineering
• Develop data pipelines, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks to measure code correctness, task completion, latency, reliability, safety, and developer productivity
• Explore and apply advances in large language models, code intelligence, program analysis, and autonomous software engineering

What they're looking for:

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages: Python, Go, Java, C++, JavaScript, or TypeScript
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks, and fundamental system design principles
• Familiarity with machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, or large language models
• Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional engineering environment
• Passion for developer tools, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and improving software engineering productivity
• Experience building AI-powered developer tools, including agentic workflows, coding agents, IDE extensions, or command-line tools
• Experience with large language models, prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, context/harness engineering, MCP, agent skills
• Publications, open-source contributions, technical blogs, hackathon projects, or a strong portfolio related to AI or developer tooling

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)