Research Scientist Intern (Distributed NoSQL Database Systems) - 2027 Start (PhD)

ByteDance is a global technology company known for its innovative products, including TikTok. They are seeking a Research Scientist Intern to join their database R&D team, where the intern will contribute to the development of AI-native database systems and collaborate with various teams on backend support.

What you'll do:

• Develop kernel modules or features for AI-native database systems
• Solve unique, large-scale, highly complex cloud infrastructure problems
• Partner with PMs and engineers from different teams on building backend support for AI-native database service products
• Participate in technical discussions related to team's product and engineering work

What they're looking for:

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related discipline
• Knowledge of database kernel, distributed system, query processing and optimization, multi-threaded programming
• Experience coding in C/C++, Golang, Java, Python
• Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications
• Curiosity towards new technologies and entrepreneurship
• High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities
• Experience with open-source systems such as Faiss, Milvus, DuckDB, ClickHouse, TiKV, RocksDB
• Publications at conferences (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB, NeurIPS, MLSys, ICDE)
• Familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure's database and AI integration strategies
• Prior contributions to RAG, memory-augmented models, or self-tuning database components

Benefits:

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