ByteDance
Agent Evaluation & Evolution Researcher Graduate (AML-Ark-US) - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
About the job
Design and develop evaluation systems, benchmarks, and feedback loops to assess and improve LLM-based agents.
What you'll do
- Evaluate agent task success, tool use, reasoning quality, and reliability; build benchmarks and automated judging pipelines.
- Analyze execution traces and user feedback to find failure patterns and drive system improvements.
- Work with research, platform, and product teams to bring evaluation methods into production.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
- Solid foundation in machine learning and deep learning.
- Hands-on experience with LLM-based systems through research, internships, or projects.
- Strong Python skills, experience with a mainstream ML or agent evaluation framework, and demonstrated research or engineering ability.
Nice to have
- Publications at top-tier ML/NLP venues, especially in agent learning, self-improving/self-evolving/RSI, or agent evaluation.
- Experience with evaluation methodology, LLM post-training, reasoning and planning, continual learning, feedback-driven optimization, or large-scale log and trace analysis.
Tools
Python, LLM, ML
AI focus
Evaluation and improvement of LLM-based agents, including benchmarks, automated judging, trace analysis, and feedback-driven capability development.
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