Software Engineer Graduate (AI Infra Compute) - 2027 Start

ByteDance is a company founded in 2012 with a mission to inspire creativity and enrich life. They are seeking a Graduate Software Engineer to join their Compute division, focusing on building large-scale cloud infrastructure and optimizing AI technologies.

What you'll do:

• Develop key technologies to optimize our AI Infra stack, including training infra, inference infra, and AI agents
• Work with academia and open source communities on joint development
• Follow the latest technologies from academia or industry and conduct deep-dive analysis
• Present our research and products in academic papers

What they're looking for:

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
• Experience with at least one of the following areas: LLM training infra, including optimizations for various post-training workloads such as RL training, knowledge distillation, etc
• Experience with at least one of the following areas: LLM inference infra, including inference engine performance improvements, more efficient execution parallelism, GPU kernel optimizations, etc
• Experience with at least one of the following areas: AI Agent Infra, including computer-use agents, coding agents, agent memory, agent sandbox, etc
• Commit to proactive continuous learning, demonstrate enthusiasm for AI technologies, and exhibit a strong ability to quickly grasp and apply new technologies
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Frequent contributors or maintainers in AI Infra related open source communities such as vLLM or SGLang
• Having CS conference publications such as OSDI or MLSys

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
• Employees also receive 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)