ByteDance · 2 weeks ago
Software Engineer Graduate (Applied Machine Learning - Training) - 2026 Start (PhD)
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$119K/yr - $259K/yrByteDance is a company that inspires creativity and enriches life through innovative products. They are seeking a Software Engineer New Graduate to design and implement a global-scale machine learning system for feeds, ads, and search ranking models, while improving the usability and performance of the machine learning infrastructure.
ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
Responsible for the design and implementation of a global-scale machine learning system for feeds, ads and search ranking models
Responsible for improving usability, flexibility, scalability, and stability of the machine learning infrastructure
Responsible for improving the performance of machine learning infrastructure over different hardware and network topologies
Responsible for improving the workflow of model training and serving, data pipelines, and resource management for multi-tenancy machine learning systems
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Have distributed system or other infrastructure system experience
CUDA, Compiler, AND/OR C++ experience
ML/Deep learning Frameworks: GPUs/TPUs along with Tensorflow/Pytorch
Preferred
Computer architecture (CPUs, Memory Storage, microarchitecture, etc.), or hardware infrastructure experience
Experience in big data frameworks (e.g., K8s/Spark/Hadoop/Flink), experience in resource management and task scheduling for large scale distributed systems, experience in building solutions with AWS, GCP, Azures, OCI, AliCloud or other cloud services
Strong background in one of the following fields: Hardware-Software Co-Design, High Performance Computing, ML Hardware Acceleration (e.g., GPU/TPU/RDMA) or ML for Systems
Experience in developing and deploying large-scale systems(e.g. Monitoring, Analyzing, Troubleshooting, and Notification systems), strong understanding of code optimizing, routine task automation and failure self-healing, familiar with IaC technologies like Terraform/Ansible
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
Founded in 2012
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.8BKey Investors
Capital TodayG42Tiger Global Management
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
Recent News
2026-01-08
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