Drimva

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