ByteDance · 1 day ago
Cloud Acceleration Engineer Graduate (DPU & AI Infra) - 2026 Start (PHD)
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$137K/yr - $259K/yr
2+ years expByteDance is a technology company focused on inspiring creativity and enriching life. The Cloud Acceleration Engineer Graduate will be involved in designing and developing high-performance network software while collaborating with hardware teams on software-hardware co-design solutions.
ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
Design and develop DPU network software with a focus on high performance, low latency, and reliability
Collaborate with hardware teams to build software-hardware co-design solutions for networking and storage acceleration
Explore AI/ML infrastructure acceleration, leveraging DPUs, GPUs, and custom hardware to optimize distributed training and inference
Drive end-to-end performance optimization, from OS kernels and drivers to user-space runtime systems
Contribute to architecture design, technical proposals, and long-term research directions
Qualification
Required
Ph.D. in related fields with research training and publications
2+ years of relevant industry experience (exception for Ph.D. with strong background)
Proficiency in C/C++ development and debugging
Strong Linux systems development experience
Solid understanding of compute, network architecture, and operating systems
Background in at least one of: software-hardware co-design, distributed systems, high-performance networking, or AI/ML systems
Preferred
Experience with software-hardware co-design (networking, storage, or distributed compute)
Hands-on experience with network virtualization (OVS, SR-IOV, eBPF)
Familiarity with DPDK and high-performance user-space networking
Bonus points for hardware acceleration experience, FPGA/ASIC/GPU/CUDA
Bonus points for experience with NCCL Collectives along with AI communication patterns and parallelization techniques
Proven experience designing and building AI/ML infrastructure related but not limited to inference kv cache system, data preprocessing system
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.
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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