Drimva

ByteDance

Senior Development Engineer, Physical AI Infra

San Jose, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Experience
5 years of software engineering, machine learning systems, robotics, or related industry experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Builds and operates infrastructure for Physical AI, including platforms for robotics and multimodal model data, simulation, training, evaluation, inference, and deployment.

What you'll do

  • Own the design, implementation, validation, and operation of major Physical AI platform components.
  • Develop scalable infrastructure for training and serving robotics and multimodal models, and bring research ideas into reliable production capabilities.
  • Lead complex technical projects through production adoption; collaborate with teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to shared standards.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree or above in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong software and systems engineering fundamentals, including experience with production-scale distributed or data-intensive systems.
  • Deep expertise in at least one area: robotic learning; AI training and inference infrastructure; or robotics data and simulation systems.

Nice to have

  • Contributions to relevant open-source projects such as Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Cosmos, vLLM-Omni, SGLang Omni, or RLInf.
  • Experience building large-scale AI or robotics platforms for multiple teams or external customers, or with real-world robot systems and operational challenges.

Tools

Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Cosmos, vLLM-Omni, SGLang Omni, RLInf

AI focus

Develop infrastructure for Physical AI, including data and simulation platforms, distributed training and inference, and deployment on heterogeneous hardware; support multimodal and robotics models such as vision-language-action models, world models, and robot policies.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)