Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Systems (Multiple Positions)

About Byte Dance:

Founded in 2012, Byte Dance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including Tik Tok, Lemon8, Cap Cut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, Byte Dance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us:

Inspiring creativity is at the core of Byte Dance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As Byte Dancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless.
Join us.

About the Team:

Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey!

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and optimize machine learning systems, focusing on heterogeneous computing architectures, resources
management, and system monitoring.
Deploy and maintain scalable ML infrastructure, including distributed task scheduling and large-scale training pipelines.
Facilitate cross-layer optimization across hardware, systems, and AI algorithms to improve performance and efficiency of ML workloads.
Implement and enhance training framework features, supporting general-purpose functionality and model-specific optimizations, including large language models and diffusion models.
Improve reliability, efficiency, and throughput of massive-scale distributed training jobs across diverse computing environments.
Mentor interns and junior engineers.

Requirements:

Qualifications:

Must have a Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Systems, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field, and 2 years of related work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Systems, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field, and 5 years of post-bachelor's, progressive related work experience.

Of the required experience, must have 2 years of experience in each of the following:
Designing and implementing software service architecture to support high throughput and fault tolerant services;
Working with computing systems utilizing GPU or ASIC for machine learning applications;
Developing machine learning models using platforms and frameworks, including Py Torch or JAX;
Designing and managing databases to support online services using MySQL or Redis; and
Programming in a Linux environment using C/C++, CUDA, or Python.

Type: Full time, 40 hours/week
Location: San Jose, CA
Salary Range: $212800 - $387600 per year

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Byte Dance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At Byte Dance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

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

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