Research Engineer Graduate (AI Training Systems & RL Infrastructure - Seed Infra) - 2026 Start (PhD)
ByteDance · Seattle, Washington, US
About the team The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneo...
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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: The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $232560 - $427500 annually. - Conduct research and development on large-scale AI infrastructure to support efficient training and post-training of foundation models, multimodal LLMs, and image/video generation models. - Design and optimize distributed training strategies, including data/model/tensor/pipeline/expert parallelism, computation–communication overlap, and large-scale GPU cluster scaling. - Prototype and improve end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) training systems, c...