ByteDance

Student Researcher (AI Foundation Models Infrastructure – Seed Infra) – 2026 Start (MS/BS)

ByteDance  •  San Jose, CA (Onsite)  •  15 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.

As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

As an Infrastructure Intern, you may work on one or more of the following areas:
- Assist in building and optimizing large-scale distributed training systems (e.g., data/model parallelism, memory efficiency, reliability)
- Support the development and improvement of reinforcement learning training pipelines and post-training systems
- Improve inference performance, including latency, throughput, and system stability
- Contribute to compiler or runtime optimizations for GPU and other accelerators
- Conduct performance analysis, profiling, benchmarking, and bottleneck identification
- Develop internal tools and automation to improve infrastructure efficiency and developer productivity
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate model requirements into scalable system solutions

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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