ByteDance

Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure - Developer Tooling

ByteDance  •  $202k - $368k/yr  •  Seattle, WA (Hybrid)  •  8 days ago
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Job Description

About the Team
We're building the AI-powered backbone of our developer tools. You'll work on three core systems: a retrieval infrastructure powering our AI products, a coding agent that assists users in writing code, and the evaluation frameworks that measure their effectiveness.

Responsibilities
Retrieval Systems (RAG Infrastructure)
- Design and scale retrieval pipelines including vector search, BM25, and hybrid retrieval strategies
- Build and optimize embedding pipelines, chunking strategies, and re-ranking systems
- Develop query understanding and rewriting components to improve retrieval relevance
- Manage vector database infrastructure at production scale

Coding Agent Development
- Build agent architectures that support multi-step code generation, refactoring, debugging, and diagnostics
- Implement tool-use patterns (function calling, code execution sandboxing, file system interaction)
- Develop context management strategies for long-form code understanding

Evaluation & Benchmarking
- Design and maintain evaluation frameworks for retrieval quality and agent task completion
- Build custom benchmark suites for real-world coding task assessment
- Create reproducible testing infrastructure with automated regression detection

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $202160 - $368220 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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