ByteDance

Research Engineer Graduate (Agent Evaluation & Training Infrastructure – Seed Infra) – 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance  •  $233k - $428k/yr  •  Seattle, WA (Onsite)  •  7 hours 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.

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 our Company.

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
- Design and build scalable agent evaluation frameworks for multi-step, tool-using, and environment-interacting agents
- Develop reproducible rollout systems, including trajectory logging, execution formats, and experiment replay
- Build distributed execution pipelines for large-scale agent evaluation and post-training workloads
- Support RLHF and other post-training workflows through infrastructure for rollout, reward modeling, and policy optimization
- Develop sandboxed and cloud-based environments for safe, reliable agent experimentation
- Improve scalability, reliability, and performance of agent training and evaluation 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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