ByteDance

Device Prototyping Designer Graduate (PICO) 2026 Start - (PhD)

ByteDance  •  $108k - $168k/yr  •  San Jose, CA (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

About Team:
The Innovation Team is part of the Industrial Design organization, with a primary focus on incubating new ideas and product concepts. The team takes a holistic view of the product experience and explores how emerging technologies can be leveraged to create meaningful, delightful, and genuinely useful user experiences.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at ByteDance.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Responsibilities:
What You Will Do
- Navigate Ambiguity: Take loose prompts and abstract ideas and turn them into concrete technical strategies. You are comfortable building without a spec sheet.
- Rapid Experience Prototyping: Move fast. One day you might be duct-taping a Raspberry Pi to a foam model to test an interaction; the next, you are refining a polished Python script for an executive demo.
- Edge AI Implementation: Give objects a "brain." Implement and optimize Large Language Models (LLMs), Computer Vision, and multimodal AI directly on embedded hardware (Jetson, ESP32, Mobile).
- Hardware Integration: Build the "nervous system" of our concepts—selecting sensors, actuators, displays, and microcontrollers and integrating them into 3D-printed enclosures.
- Technical Storytelling: Demonstrate your prototypes to stakeholders, explaining not just the how (the code), but the why (the user experience).

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $108000 - $168000 annually.
ByteDance

About ByteDance

ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok.

Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users.

We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
China, CN
Year Founded
Unknown
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