ByteDance
ByteDance

Research Scientist in AI Foundation Model Infrastructure - Seed - Graduates - 2027 Start (BS/MS)

RoleMachine Learning
LevelMid Level
LocationSeattle, WA, United States
WorkOn-site
TypeRegular
PostedToday
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About the role

About the team
The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies for AI foundation models.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build scalable infrastructure for large-scale model training, evaluation, and inference.
  • Optimize distributed training systems across compute, memory, and communication.
  • Improve system reliability, efficiency, and observability for large-scale workloads.
  • Develop frameworks for evaluation, data processing, and model lifecycle management.
  • Co-design systems and algorithms to improve performance of foundation models.

Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field, with an expected graduation date in 2027 and the ability to commit to an onboarding date by the end of 2027.
  • Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, etc.
  • Demonstrated interest or project experience in relevant areas.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in distributed systems, machine learning systems, or related areas through internships is preferred.
  • Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Required skills

Machine learning

Model evaluation

Data workflows

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