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ByteDance · 5 months ago

GPU/AI Application Platform Engineer Intern (Server Platform) - 2025 Summer/Fall (PhD)

San Jose, CA

Internship

Onsite

Intern

$60/hr - $60/hr

ByteDance is a leading technology company known for its innovative products like TikTok and CapCut. They are seeking a self-motivated GPU/AI Application Platform Engineer Intern to work on developing benchmarks and optimizing performance for GPU/AI systems.

ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop application benchmarks, tools and performance optimization method for GPU/AI system

Identify the system bottleneck/opportunity with deep system-level data-driven study, explore innovative options through SW-HW co-design, and lead them towards implementation

Develop GPU/AI system TCO model, based on application benchmark and performance optimization

Work with industry consortiums and open standard committees to investigate the emerging standards or technologies, and contribute our research results to the industry

Work with our technology partners and suppliers to setup POC or prototypes to evaluate and test the new technologies or architectural designs

Qualification

GPU/AI platform architecturePerformance optimizationC/C++ programmingScripting languagesComputer system architectureSoftware hardware co-designDeep learning architectureDistributed systemsGPU/AI virtualization

Required

Master or Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related majors

Thesis in GPU/AI platform architecture and/or application performance optimization design or software hardware co-design

Deep understanding of computer system architecture, especially on GPU/AI SoC or Platform Architecture, Interconnect Fabric, and Memory sub-system

Experienced in GPU/AI system application performance optimization or software hardware co-design

Strong knowledge and proficiency in software development in C/C++, scripting languages such as Python

Understand the implementation of GPU/AI virtualization technology, deep learning architecture, and distributed system

Benefits

Day one access to health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)

Housing allowance

Company

ByteDance

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ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.

Founded in 2012

Beijing, Beijing, CHN

10001+ employees

http://bytedance.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (1350)

2024 (1123)

2023 (775)

2022 (487)

2021 (417)

2020 (245)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$9.8B

Key Investors

Capital TodayG42Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Japan,Sequoia Capital

2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M

2024-07-25Secondary Market

2023-03-14Secondary Market· $100M

Leadership Team

Jochen Bischoff

Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa

Matty Lin

General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR

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