ByteDance
Research Intern (RDMA/High Speed Network) - 2026 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing a PhD in computer networking or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Researches and develops high-performance networking protocols, congestion control, and communication frameworks for AI/LLM applications and networks.
What you'll do
- Design, optimize, implement, and deploy high-performance transport protocols and congestion control algorithms for AI/LLM applications.
- Develop communication frameworks and protocol stacks, including host-network-application co-design, to improve AI network scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Track academic and industry advances, identify innovative system ideas, and present research in academic papers.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a PhD in computer networking or a related technical discipline.
- Experience in at least one listed area: network protocols and Socket/verbs programming; data-center congestion control; scale-up protocols; or high-speed network systems.
- Proficiency in one or more mainstream programming languages, such as C/C++, Python, or Go.
- Some knowledge of GPU architecture.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AI training/inference systems and software-hardware co-design.
- Experience developing high-performance communication frameworks, or top-tier networking conference publications.
Tools
TCP, RoCEv2, Socket, verbs APIs, PCIe, NVLink, UALink, C/C++
AI focus
Develops transport protocols, congestion control, and communication frameworks for AI/LLM applications and networks.
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