Student Researcher (Seed - Infra - Training) - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance • Seattle, WA

97d

About The Position

The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies for AI foundation models. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. PhD Internships at ByteDance 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. 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

• Research and develop our machine learning systems, including heterogeneous computing architecture, management, scheduling, and monitoring.
• Manage cross-layer optimization of system and AI algorithms and hardware for machine learning (GPU, ASIC).
• Implement both general purpose training framework features and model specific optimizations (e.g. LLM, diffusions).
• Improve efficiency and stability for extremely large scale distributed training jobs.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees