ByteDance

Research Engineer - LLM Infra training - Seed Infra

ByteDance  •  $233k - $428k/yr  •  Seattle, WA (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

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

Responsibilities
- Conduct research and development on large-scale LLM training infrastructure and efficiency
- Design and optimize distributed training strategies for LLMs, including parallelism schemes, computation and communication optimization, and throughput scaling on large GPU clusters
- Investigate system reliability and resilience techniques, such as fast checkpointing, fault tolerance, and failure diagnosis for long-running training workloads
- Research and optimize network, scheduling, and GPU memory management across the training stack, driving cross-layer performance improvements
- Analyze performance bottlenecks in exascale training systems and propose principled, data-driven optimization methods
- Bridge cutting-edge research and large-scale production deployment by translating research ideas into scalable, real-world AI infrastructure solutions

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.

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