Drimva

ByteDance

Research Scientist - Driven Agent Self-Evolution - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a closely related discipline.

About the job

Research and develop self-evolving LLM agent systems that learn from execution, feedback, and environmental signals, and deploy improvements through production-scale infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Develop agent frameworks that improve from execution traces, user feedback, and environmental signals.
  • Build log analytics pipelines to identify quality signals, usage patterns, and actionable insights.
  • Apply LLM post-training, reasoning, and planning techniques, and collaborate to bring research into production systems.

What they ask for

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a closely related discipline.
  • Strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, or optimization.
  • Research experience in at least one listed area, including LLM-based agents, planning and reasoning, multi-agent systems, continual/lifelong learning, or LLM post-training.
  • Strong Python programming skills, proficiency with ML frameworks, and a publication record at top-tier venues.

Nice to have

  • Publications or research experience related to agent learning, adaptation, LLM reasoning, planning, or fine-tuning.
  • Hands-on experience building or evaluating LLM agents, feedback-driven optimization, or production-scale AI systems.

Tools

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX

AI focus

Research on continual self-improvement of LLM agents, including adaptive runtime, experience compilation, evaluation-governance loops, post-training, reasoning, and planning.

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