ByteDance
Research Scientist - Technologies of Data Management, LLM and AI Agents - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Conduct research and develop systems across the AI infrastructure stack, including data management, vector retrieval, storage, scheduling, observability, and AI-agent-based infrastructure optimization.
What you'll do
- Research and build multimodal query processing and data-management technologies for LLMs and AI agents.
- Develop and optimize AI infrastructure systems, including storage, vector retrieval, power scheduling, and network observability.
- Explore AI-agent workflows for automated infrastructure optimization and deliver system designs, implementations, and demos.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong coding ability in at least one mainstream programming language, with data structures and algorithm fundamentals.
- Ability to independently design and develop complex systems and deliver design documents, independent deliverables, and demo systems.
- Familiarity with state-of-the-art data management technologies.
Nice to have
- Research experience in LLMs and infrastructure.
- At least two first-author papers in conferences or journals such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ASE, FSE, NSDI/OSDI, or EuroSys.
Tools
LLMs, AI Agents, C/C++, Python, Go, SQL, DPU
AI focus
Research and development of AI-native infrastructure for LLMs and agents, including multimodal data management, vector retrieval, and agent-based infrastructure optimization.
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