Research Engineer Jobs in San Jose, CA

Location :
San Jose

Team :
Technology

Employment Type :
Regular

Job Code :
A85821

Responsibilities

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 - Conduct research and engineering development on large-scale infrastructure to enable efficient pretraining of foundation models, multimodal LLMs, and video generation models - Design and optimize distributed training strategies for model training, including parallelism schemes, computation and communication optimization, and throughput scaling on large GPU clusters - Analyze performance bottlenecks in exascale training systems and propose principled, data-driven optimization methods - Bridge cutting-edge research and large-scale production deployment by translating research ideas into scalable, real-world infrastructure solutions

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, with 2+ years of experience in large-scale model training, distributed training systems, or GPU kernel optimization - Solid understanding of large-scale training of LLMs and multimodal models - Proven experience with parallelism strategies (e.g., data, pipeline, expert parallelism) on large GPU clusters, or GPU kernel performance optimization - Strong grasp of algorithm–system co-design and cross-layer optimization for training efficiency, scalability, and reliability - Strong programming skills and hands-on experience implementing production-grade ML systems or infrastructure Preferred Qualifications - Hands-on experience pretraining LLMs, multimodal, or video generation models at scale, or with mainstream distributed training frameworks (e.g., Megatron-LM, DeepSpeed, PyTorch FSDP, NCCL), or with custom kernel development using CUDA or Triton - Publications at top-tier machine learning or systems conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, MLSys, OSDI, SOSP), or notable open-source contributions to widely used training frameworks

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $254400 - $480000 annually. ​

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. ​

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). ​

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: ​

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues; ​

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and ​

3. Exercising sound judgment. ​

About Doubao (Seed)

Established in 2023, the ByteDance Seed team is dedicated to pioneering new paths toward artificial general intelligence. We aspire to advance the frontier of intelligence to drive progress for both technology and society. ​

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With a long-term vision for the AI sector, the Seed team's research spans MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics. We maintain a global presence with laboratories and career opportunities across China, Singapore, and the United States. To date, we have launched industry-leading general foundation models and cutting-edge multimodal capabilities. Our technology powers over 50 application scenarios — including Doubao, Jimeng, TRAE, Dola and Dreamnia — and serves enterprise customers through Volcano Engine and BytePlus. Third-party data shows that the Doubao App ranks first in user volume in the Chinese market, while Doubao foundation models lead the industry in average daily token consumption. ​

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