ByteDance
Software Engineer / Researcher, AI-Native database systems
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years in core database systems, large-scale distributed infrastructure, or machine learning systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fields.
About the job
Build AI-native database systems and infrastructure for structured, unstructured, and vector data, including retrieval, LLM-powered queries, and agent memory.
What you'll do
- Architect and implement AI-native databases, storage engines, and low-latency distributed vector search.
- Develop AI-augmented query processors and contribute to RAG infrastructure and LLM agent memory backends.
- Advance learned indexes, self-optimizing databases, and AI-integrated transaction systems; contribute to research and open source.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field, with strong systems or AI research experience.
- 2+ years in core database systems, large-scale distributed infrastructure, or machine learning systems.
- Strong coding and system-level design skills in C++ / Rust / Go.
- Deep expertise in at least one listed area: storage engines; vector retrieval and ANN indexing; AI infrastructure or model serving; semantic search, agent systems, or AI-native memory frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience with Faiss, Milvus, DuckDB, ClickHouse, TiKV, or RocksDB; publications at accredited conferences.
- Familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure database and AI integration strategies; contributions to RAG, memory-augmented models, or self-tuning database components.
Tools
C++, Rust, Go, Faiss, Milvus, DuckDB, ClickHouse, TiKV
AI focus
Develop AI-native databases, multimodal retrieval and vector search, LLM-powered query processing, RAG infrastructure, and LLM agent memory backends.
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