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Research Scientist Graduate (Infrastructure System Lab) - 2027 Start (PhD)

ByteDance
San Jose, California, United StatesFull TimeEntry-level162k–317k USDPosted Today
With the fast growth of ByteDance's business, ByteDance's system infrastructure is currently at a massive scale and requires versatile system solutions. Our team works on advanced R&D projects, focusing on LLM/AI + Infrastructure technologies, which includes both infrastructure for LLM/AI and LLM/AI for infrastructure. To name a few, our TextToSQL project ranks top on well known industry benchmarks. We also work on advanced multimodal data processing technologies using LLM, such as scalable and efficient semantic operators and AI functions.

Besides achieving great business impacts, we also encourage publishing on top tier conferences. In year 2025 alone, our team published nearly 20 papers in top tier conferences, such as SIGMOD, VLDB, FSE, ICLR, EuroSys, WWW etc. We hire students with great technical skills, willingness to learn and solve complex technical challenges and passion in making an impact on millions of users.

With the large-scale deployment of large language models (LLMs) and AI Agents, traditional cloud-native infrastructure can no longer meet the extreme performance and elasticity demands of AI workloads.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2027. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at ByteDance.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2027. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume

Responsibilities:
- Do research surveys and come up with a new system and algorithm design.
- Develop new systems and successfully land them into production environments
- Be able to debug systems and measure system performance.
- Collaborate with mentors and other lab members.
- Write technical reports and publish papers.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $316800 annually.
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Research Scientist Graduate (Infrastructure System Lab) - 2027 Start (PhD) at ByteDance