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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