ByteDance · 2 weeks ago
Research Intern (RDMA/High Speed Network) - 2026 Start (PhD)
United States
Internship
Remote
Intern
Start in 2026ByteDance is a company focused on inspiring creativity and enriching life through innovative products like TikTok and Douyin. They are seeking a Research Intern to contribute to high-performance transport protocols and congestion control algorithms for AI applications, while gaining hands-on experience in data center networking.
ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
Design, optimization, implementation and deployment of high-performance transport protocols to support AI/LLM applications
Design, optimization, implementation and deployment of congestion control algorithms to support AI/LLM applications
Research and development of high-performance AI communication framework, network protocol stacks, and co-design optimization of host-network-application to improve the scalability, reliability and performance of AI/LLM networks
Follow the latest technologies from academia and industry, identify the innovative parts of the system and present in academic papers
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing a PhD in computer networking or a related technical discipline
Experience with at least one of the following areas:
Be familiar with network protocols like TCP and RoCEv2, have experience in network programming based on Socket and verbs APIs
Be familiar with Data Center congestion control algorithms, understand their pros and cons
Knowledge of scale-up protocols like PCIe, NVLink, UALink, and their differences with scale-out network protocols
Be familiar with the latest advances in the area of high-speed network systems, including RDMA, congestion control, AI network optimization and so on
Proficiency in one or several mainstream programming languages, including C/C++, Python, Go and so on
Have some knowledge of GPU architecture
Experience in developing high performance communication frameworks (including NCCL, MPI and RPC libraries) is a plus
Preferred
Be familiar with AI training/inference systems and software-hardware co-design
Having top tier networking conference publications such as NSDI,SIGCOMM,OSDI,SOSP etc
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
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
Founded in 2012
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
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Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
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