ByteDance
Research Intern (AI Infra Compute) - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Researches and develops AI infrastructure for training, inference, and AI agents, builds prototypes to evaluate components, and presents findings through academic publications.
What you'll do
- Explore and develop technologies for AI infrastructure, including training and inference platforms and AI Agent infrastructure.
- Build prototypes to verify the functionality and performance of components or innovations.
- Showcase research findings and products through academic publications.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience in at least one area: LLM training/Inference or Physical AI Infra (training, inference, simulation, RL, synthetic data, etc.).
- Ability to work independently and complete projects from beginning to end in a timely manner.
- Good communication and teamwork skills for explaining technical concepts.
Nice to have
- Code contributions to open source communities such as Pytorch, vLLM, or SGlang.
- Publications in relevant computer science conferences such as OSDI or MLSYS.
Tools
Pytorch, vLLM, SGlang
AI focus
Develops AI infrastructure for LLM training and inference, AI agents, and Physical AI workloads; prototypes and evaluates infrastructure components and innovations.
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