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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