ByteDance
Cloud Acceleration Engineer – DPU & AI Infra
Seattle, Washington · 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
Designs high-performance DPU networking software and accelerates cloud and AI/ML infrastructure through software-hardware co-design and system-level optimization.
What you'll do
- Develop reliable, low-latency DPU network software and collaborate with hardware teams on networking and storage acceleration.
- Explore DPU, GPU, and custom-hardware acceleration for distributed AI training and inference; optimize performance from kernels and drivers to user-space runtimes.
- 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, with an exception for Ph.D. candidates with a 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 (OVS, SR-IOV, eBPF), DPDK, hardware acceleration, NCCL Collectives, or AI/ML infrastructure.
Tools
C/C++, Linux, OVS, SR-IOV, eBPF, DPDK, FPGA, ASIC
AI focus
Explore and optimize AI/ML infrastructure acceleration for distributed training and inference using DPUs, GPUs, and custom hardware; the posting also mentions AI communication patterns, parallelization, inference KV-cache systems, and data preprocessing systems.
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