ByteDance
Research Scientist Graduate (AI Agent Memory Infrastructure) - 2026 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field; completing or recently completed.
About the job
Designs and productionizes scalable memory infrastructure for AI agents, supporting long-term, conversational, task-oriented, and multimodal memory.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize memory pipelines for ingestion, storage, indexing, retrieval, updating, compression, and forgetting.
- Develop memory models and workflows involving LLMs, context engineering, retrieval, ranking, and multimodal data.
- Collaborate with model, application, and platform teams to deploy memory capabilities and improve quality, latency, cost, reliability, and safety.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field.
- Strong experience in distributed systems, databases, information retrieval systems, or AI infrastructure, with system design and production engineering capability.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, or C++; understanding of LLM application technologies such as embeddings, RAG, context engineering, retrieval systems, and long-term state management.
- Familiarity with at least one memory-system area, such as memory representation, vector/graph indexing, retrieval and ranking, updating, compression and forgetting, or multimodal fusion.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent memory systems, user profiling, recommendation/search feature platforms, or knowledge base systems.
- Contributions to or deep understanding of open-source memory frameworks such as mem0, memOS, or memU; relevant publications or impactful technical work are also valued.
Tools
Go, Python, C++, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector/graph indexing
AI focus
Builds AI agent memory systems, including long-term, conversational, task-oriented, and multimodal memory, and productionizes them for personalized interactions.
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