Drimva

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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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)