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ByteDance

Applied Scientist - LLM Training System as a Service - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Education
Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, automation, electronics engineering, or a related technical discipline.

About the job

Develop and optimize distributed LLM training, inference, and reinforcement-learning systems, including GPU performance optimization for emerging AI Agent training workloads.

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize LLM training, inference, and reinforcement-learning frameworks.
  • Work with model researchers to scale LLM training and reinforcement learning.
  • Optimize GPU and CUDA performance for training, inference, and reinforcement-learning engines.

What they ask for

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, automation, electronics engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Proficient in algorithms and data structures and familiar with Python.
  • Understand deep-learning principles, neural-network architectures, and frameworks such as Pytorch.

Nice to have

  • GPU high-performance computing optimization with CUDA; knowledge of computer architecture and parallel, memory-access, or low-bit optimization.
  • Familiarity with FSDP, Deepspeed, JAX SPMD, Megatron-LM, Verl, TensorRT-LLM, ORCA, VLLM, or SGLang; LLM knowledge or model-acceleration experience.

Tools

Python, Pytorch, CUDA, FSDP, Deepspeed, JAX SPMD, Megatron-LM, TensorRT-LLM

AI focus

Build and optimize LLM and AI Agent training and inference systems, including reinforcement learning and GPU acceleration.

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