ByteDance
Senior Software Engineer - Data Agent & Agentic Search
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years experience with Agentic Search, Data Agents, RAG, or AI Search through research, internships, or projects (preferred).
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field.
About the job
Build Agentic Search and Analytics systems that plan, retrieve, reason, execute tools, and improve through iterative agentic loops.
What you'll do
- Develop multi-source and multimodal search across structured data, documents, images, audio, and video.
- Build a unified semantic layer for heterogeneous enterprise data.
- Explore self-evolving agents that improve through interactions, feedback, memory, and historical executions.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Strong coding, data structures, and algorithm skills; proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or Golang.
- Familiarity with LLMs, Agents, Search, RAG, Information Retrieval, or Machine Learning.
- Strong problem-solving, learning, and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Milvus, Faiss, Qdrant, or similar retrieval systems.
- Experience with tool calling, MCP, Skills, memory, planning, agent evaluation, semantic layers, knowledge graphs, multimodal retrieval, or large-scale data processing.
Tools
Python, Java, C++, Golang, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Milvus, Faiss, Qdrant
AI focus
Develop Agentic Search, Data Agents, RAG, AI Search, multimodal retrieval, semantic layers, and self-evolving agents.
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