ByteDance
Software Engineer - Data Agent & Agentic Search
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field.
About the job
Builds agentic search and analytics systems that plan, retrieve, reason, execute tools, and support multimodal enterprise data search.
What you'll do
- Develop Agentic Search and Analytics systems with iterative agent workflows.
- Build multi-source and multimodal search across structured data, documents, images, audio, and video.
- Create unified semantic layers and explore agents that improve through interactions, feedback, memory, and past 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
- Experience with Agentic Search, Data Agents, RAG, or AI Search through research, internships, or projects.
- Familiarity with retrieval systems such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Milvus, Faiss, or Qdrant; or experience with agent capabilities, semantic layers, knowledge graphs, multimodal retrieval, or large-scale data processing.
Tools
Python, Java, C++, Golang, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Milvus, Faiss, Qdrant
AI focus
Develops Agentic Search, RAG, AI-powered and multimodal retrieval, semantic layers, and self-evolving agents.
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