ByteDance
Research Intern (AI Compute) - 2027 Start (PhD)
Seattle, Washington · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- Education
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build and optimize cloud-native, GPU-accelerated infrastructure and large-scale orchestration systems for LLM inference.
What you'll do
- Design and build scalable, resilient container-based cluster management and orchestration systems.
- Architect cloud-native GPU and AI accelerator infrastructure for cost-efficient, secure ML platforms.
- Collaborate on LLM inference solutions and write production-ready code.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Available to work for 12 weeks during Summer 2027.
- Strong understanding of large model inference, distributed and parallel systems, and/or high-performance networking systems; hands-on experience building cloud or ML infrastructure.
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, and proficiency in at least one of Go, Rust, Python, or C++.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale cluster management, workload scheduling, GPU orchestration, or production scaling and isolation.
- Experience with CUDA or inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM; familiarity with cloud ML platforms or ML systems.
Tools
vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Kubernetes, Ray, Docker, Go, Rust
AI focus
Develop infrastructure for large-scale LLM inference and GPU-accelerated AI workloads.
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