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ByteDance builds data infrastructure at a scale few companies match, and their internship program reflects that ambition. Data Engineering Intern roles sit at the intersection of pipeline development, large-scale data systems, and cross-functional product work. ByteDance sponsors work visas for interns, making these roles accessible to international students on F-1 OPT or CPT.
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San Jose
Team:
Technology
Employment Type:
Intern
Job Code:
A112542A
Team Introduction:
The EE Platform team focuses on silicon and EE architecture for AR/VR platforms to optimize the system power, latency and performance. The team innovates on customized silicon solutions for imaging, display and connectivity with HW/SW co-optimization.
Topic Content:
The rapid advancement of AI Agents is set to have a far-reaching and transformative impact on daily life. As the hardware bridge linking AI Agents to the physical world and end users, intelligent hardware acts as a vital gateway for agents to perceive their environment and recognize user intent. Enabling AI Agents to maintain round-the-clock environmental awareness and efficiently capture real-time user intentions is essential to improving their everyday service experience. This topic seeks to overcome the limitations of conventional visual perception systems. By deeply integrating sensing and computing, it explores full-stack innovation spanning from low-level hardware to high-level algorithms. Key efforts include developing next-generation sensors with real-time understanding capabilities, investigating non-traditional visual capture and compression techniques, and designing novel hardware architectures to run advanced algorithms—enabling highly efficient coordination across sensing, processing, and communication.
Topic Challenge:
Break free from the framework of conventional sensing systems, explore novel sensors, signal processing and compression schemes to achieve highly energy-efficient sensing tasks, while enabling seamless integration with large models.
Topic Value:
Breakthroughs in this research direction will enable intelligent hardware to better connect AI, users, and daily life. Against the backdrop of the AI Agent era, this will unlock the gateway to the next generation of intelligent hardware terminals and open up broader technological possibilities.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. PhD Internships at our Company aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.
PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).
Responsibilities:
- Innovate and develop a power-efficient, low-latency, highly-intelligent all-day machine perception vision system.
- Develop necessary training, data collection/generation pipeline along with state of art ML algorithm/framework for understanding of the scene and user behaviors.
- Map the cutting edge ML algorithm to the HW accelerator, identify performance bottleneck, optimize performance and efficiency, propose more efficient HW/SW co-design for AI accelerator.
- Collaborate with the x-functions team and translate system requirements into a proper cloud-edge workload partition and edge ML accelerator HW/SW requirement.
- Perform quantitative evaluations through the use of system modeling and influence sensor, soc and software co-design.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently Pursuing PhD in the fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics and related technical discipline.
- Experience in research in the fields of computer vision, edge ML perception algorithm and/or related AI accelerator design.
- Experience with programming tools and languages such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with appropriate ML frameworks and model deployment.
- Familiar with image sensor and isp.
- Good track record on top-tier conference or journal publication.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern
The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60 - $60.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and 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.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
-
Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
-
Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
-
Exercising sound judgment.
About Pico
Founded in April 2015, Pico is a VR company committed to developing immersive and interactive VR experiences for people around the world. Pico also provides tailor-made solutions for our enterprise clients in the fields of education and healthcare.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance'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 ByteDancers, 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.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance 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 ByteDance, 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.
Reasonable Accommodation
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
Location:
San Jose
Team:
Technology
Employment Type:
Intern
Job Code:
A112542A
Team Introduction:
The EE Platform team focuses on silicon and EE architecture for AR/VR platforms to optimize the system power, latency and performance. The team innovates on customized silicon solutions for imaging, display and connectivity with HW/SW co-optimization.
Topic Content:
The rapid advancement of AI Agents is set to have a far-reaching and transformative impact on daily life. As the hardware bridge linking AI Agents to the physical world and end users, intelligent hardware acts as a vital gateway for agents to perceive their environment and recognize user intent. Enabling AI Agents to maintain round-the-clock environmental awareness and efficiently capture real-time user intentions is essential to improving their everyday service experience. This topic seeks to overcome the limitations of conventional visual perception systems. By deeply integrating sensing and computing, it explores full-stack innovation spanning from low-level hardware to high-level algorithms. Key efforts include developing next-generation sensors with real-time understanding capabilities, investigating non-traditional visual capture and compression techniques, and designing novel hardware architectures to run advanced algorithms—enabling highly efficient coordination across sensing, processing, and communication.
Topic Challenge:
Break free from the framework of conventional sensing systems, explore novel sensors, signal processing and compression schemes to achieve highly energy-efficient sensing tasks, while enabling seamless integration with large models.
Topic Value:
Breakthroughs in this research direction will enable intelligent hardware to better connect AI, users, and daily life. Against the backdrop of the AI Agent era, this will unlock the gateway to the next generation of intelligent hardware terminals and open up broader technological possibilities.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. PhD Internships at our Company aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.
PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).
Responsibilities:
- Innovate and develop a power-efficient, low-latency, highly-intelligent all-day machine perception vision system.
- Develop necessary training, data collection/generation pipeline along with state of art ML algorithm/framework for understanding of the scene and user behaviors.
- Map the cutting edge ML algorithm to the HW accelerator, identify performance bottleneck, optimize performance and efficiency, propose more efficient HW/SW co-design for AI accelerator.
- Collaborate with the x-functions team and translate system requirements into a proper cloud-edge workload partition and edge ML accelerator HW/SW requirement.
- Perform quantitative evaluations through the use of system modeling and influence sensor, soc and software co-design.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently Pursuing PhD in the fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics and related technical discipline.
- Experience in research in the fields of computer vision, edge ML perception algorithm and/or related AI accelerator design.
- Experience with programming tools and languages such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with appropriate ML frameworks and model deployment.
- Familiar with image sensor and isp.
- Good track record on top-tier conference or journal publication.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern
The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60 - $60.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and 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.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
-
Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
-
Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
-
Exercising sound judgment.
About Pico
Founded in April 2015, Pico is a VR company committed to developing immersive and interactive VR experiences for people around the world. Pico also provides tailor-made solutions for our enterprise clients in the fields of education and healthcare.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance'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 ByteDancers, 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.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance 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 ByteDance, 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.
Reasonable Accommodation
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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Tailor Your Resume to ByteDance's Stack
ByteDance data engineering roles reference Flink, Spark, and large-scale batch and streaming pipelines heavily in their job descriptions. Surface hands-on experience with distributed systems and data warehousing tools clearly so your resume clears the technical screen for this specific team.
Target Intern Roles That Convert to Full-Time
ByteDance regularly converts strong data engineering interns into full-time positions, which is where H-1B or E-3 sponsorship becomes relevant. Identifying roles on the ByteDance careers page marked as returning or new grad eligible increases your odds of a conversion offer with sponsorship.
Browse Open Intern Listings Through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter ByteDance's active Data Engineering Intern openings by visa type. This saves time compared to manually parsing job boards and ensures the roles you apply to align with your specific visa authorization, whether OPT, CPT, or H-1B1.
Understand the 60-Day Grace Period Before Gaps
If your internship ends and you're transitioning to a full-time role or new OPT authorization, USCIS allows a 60-day grace period after employment ends. Plan your ByteDance internship end date and your next visa status step so you don't fall out of status between the two.
Ask ByteDance Recruiters About Full-Time Sponsorship Pathways Directly
During the offer stage, ask the recruiting team explicitly which visa categories ByteDance files for converted interns in data engineering. ByteDance sponsors H-1B, E-3, and H-1B1, and knowing which applies to your citizenship helps you plan your post-OPT timeline accurately.
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Does ByteDance sponsor H-1B visas for Data Engineering Interns?
Not for the internship itself. ByteDance intern roles are typically worked under F-1 CPT or OPT, which your university authorizes rather than ByteDance. H-1B sponsorship becomes relevant if your internship converts to a full-time Data Engineering role. ByteDance does sponsor H-1B petitions for full-time employees and has a strong track record doing so in engineering functions.
How do I apply for Data Engineering Intern jobs at ByteDance?
Applications go through ByteDance's official careers portal at jobs.bytedance.com. Filter by internship and data engineering to surface relevant openings. You can also browse verified ByteDance Data Engineering Intern listings with visa sponsorship details on Migrate Mate, which makes it easier to confirm which roles align with your current visa authorization before applying.
Which visa types does ByteDance commonly use for Data Engineering roles?
For interns, F-1 CPT and OPT are the primary authorizations. For full-time data engineering hires, ByteDance sponsors H-1B, H-1B1 for Singaporean and Chilean nationals, and E-3 for Australian citizens. Longer-term, ByteDance also supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card sponsorship for employees moving toward permanent residence in engineering roles.
What qualifications does ByteDance expect for a Data Engineering Intern?
ByteDance typically expects enrollment in a bachelor's or master's program in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field. Practical experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Spark or Flink, familiarity with SQL and Python, and exposure to data pipeline architecture are common requirements. Projects or coursework demonstrating work at scale differentiate competitive applicants from general software engineering candidates.
How do I time my application to align with ByteDance's intern hiring cycle?
ByteDance follows a fall recruiting cycle for summer internships, with many Data Engineering Intern roles opening between August and November for the following summer. If you're on OPT, confirm your authorization start date aligns with the internship period before accepting an offer. CPT applications through your university typically require at least 30 days of lead time before the internship start date.
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