ByteDance
Tech Lead Software Engineer - AI Compute Infrastructure
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of relevant experience; Ph.D. with strong systems/ML publications also considered.
- Education
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields; Ph.D. with strong systems/ML publications also considered.
About the job
Designs and builds cloud-native, GPU-optimized infrastructure and orchestration systems for large-scale AI and LLM inference.
What you'll do
- Build high-performance, scalable, and resilient container-based cluster management and orchestration systems.
- Architect GPU and AI accelerator infrastructure for cost-efficient, secure ML platforms.
- Collaborate on LLM inference solutions and write production-ready code.
What they ask for
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with the stated experience requirement; a Ph.D. with strong systems/ML publications is also considered.
- Strong understanding of large model inference, distributed and parallel systems, and/or high-performance networking.
- Hands-on experience building cloud or ML infrastructure, such as resource management, scheduling, request routing, monitoring, or orchestration.
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, and proficiency in at least one of Go, Rust, Python, or C++.
Nice to have
- Experience contributing to or operating large-scale cluster management systems, or with GPU scheduling, orchestration, scaling, and isolation in production.
- GPU programming or inference-engine experience; familiarity with public cloud ML platforms or distributed ML systems.
Tools
AIBrix, Kubernetes, Ray, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Docker, Go
AI focus
Builds GPU-optimized infrastructure and orchestration systems for ML workloads, especially large-scale LLM inference.
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