ByteDance

Research Engineer – Agent Systems & AI Coding Environment (Seed Infra Platform)

ByteDance  •  $233k - $428k/yr  •  Seattle, WA (Onsite)  •  20 days ago
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Job Description

About the Team
The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies for AI foundation models.

Responsibilities
- Build agent harness and execution environments for AI coding and knowledge tasks (code execution, tool integration, sandboxing, system interaction)
- Develop scalable orchestration frameworks for multi-step agent workflows (planning, tool use, memory, coordination)
- Design evaluation and benchmarking systems to measure agent performance across complex, long-horizon tasks
- Improve agent performance via prompting, data curation, and post-training in collaboration with model and RL teams
- Partner with research and product teams to productionize agent systems

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $232560 - $427500 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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