Drimva

ByteDance

Cloud Acceleration Engineer – DPU & AI Infra

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

Experience
2+ years of relevant industry experience; exception for Ph.D. with strong background.
Education
B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields; or Ph.D. with strong research/publications.

About the job

Develop DPU networking software and hardware–software solutions that accelerate cloud infrastructure, distributed AI training, and inference.

What you'll do

  • Design high-performance, low-latency, reliable DPU network software and optimize performance across kernels, drivers, and user-space runtimes.
  • Collaborate with hardware teams on networking and storage acceleration, and explore DPU, GPU, and custom-hardware acceleration for AI/ML workloads.
  • Contribute to architecture design, technical proposals, and long-term research directions.

What they ask for

  • B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field; or Ph.D. with strong research/publications.
  • 2+ years of relevant industry experience; exception for Ph.D. with strong background.
  • Proficiency in C/C++ development and debugging, and 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.

Nice to have

  • Ph.D. in a related field with research training and publications.
  • Experience with software-hardware co-design, network virtualization, DPDK, hardware acceleration, NCCL Collectives, or AI/ML infrastructure.

Tools

C/C++, Linux, DPDK, RDMA, OVS, SR-IOV, eBPF, CUDA

AI focus

Explore DPU, GPU, and custom-hardware acceleration to optimize distributed AI/ML training and inference; preferred experience includes AI/ML infrastructure such as inference KV cache and data preprocessing systems.

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