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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