ByteDance
Tech Lead Engineer, Physical AI Infra
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of relevant industry experience; 3+ years as a tech lead.
- 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
Leads strategy, architecture, and delivery of infrastructure for Physical AI, including data, simulation, training, inference, and deployment systems.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmaps for Physical AI infrastructure; translate research, product, and customer needs into architecture and execution plans.
- Lead architecture and delivery across engineers and partner teams, own major platform components, and oversee end-to-end technical outcomes.
- Track advances in academia, industry, and open source; contribute technical insights and software, mentor engineers, and develop technical leaders.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or above in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of software engineering, machine learning systems, robotics, or related industry experience; 3+ years as a tech lead.
- Deep expertise in at least one specified area: robotic learning; AI training and inference infrastructure; or robotics data and simulation systems.
- Experience taking technically complex systems from prototype through validation and production deployment.
Nice to have
- Contributions to relevant open-source projects; experience building large-scale AI or robotics platforms or working with real-world robot systems.
- Publications at leading machine learning, systems, or robotics conferences.
Tools
Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Cosmos, vLLM-Omni, SGLang Omni, RLInf
AI focus
Builds infrastructure for Physical AI, including robotics data and simulation, distributed training and inference, model evaluation, and deployment on heterogeneous hardware.
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