Research Engineer - Agent Training Infrastructure (Seed Infra)

Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd
  • Seattle, WA
    30+ days ago

    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.

    Responsibilities

    • Design, implement, and maintain agent execution environments and runtime frameworks for multi-agent training at scale

    • Build and optimize infrastructure for RLHF pipelines, reward modeling, and distributed RL training

    • Manage and orchestrate many-agent parallel execution, including environment simulations and environment managers

    • Collaborate closely with research teams to support the LLM training pipeline: training ? SFT ? RLHF ? evaluation ? serving

    • Ensure high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for agent frameworks

    • Develop tools and libraries to monitor, debug, and benchmark agent training and inference

    • Translate research prototypes into production-ready infrastructure that can support large-scale AI experiments

    Minimum Qualifications

    • M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field

    • Strong experience with Python and distributed systems frameworks (e.g., Ray)

    • Hands-on experience building agent infrastructure: execution environment, runtime, or environment manager

    • Experience managing parallel multi-agent execution, including simulations and environment orchestration

    • Familiarity with the LLM pipeline (training ? SFT ? RLHF ? evaluation ? serving)

    • Proven ability to design and maintain high-performance, scalable, and robust distributed AI systems

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Experience building or contributing to RLHF pipelines, reward modeling infrastructure, or RL training infrastructure

    • Strong understanding of multi-agent reinforcement learning and agent orchestration at scale.

    • Familiarity with GPU clusters, distributed training strategies, and performance optimization

    • Publications or open-source contributions in agent systems, distributed RL, or AI infrastructure.

    • Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating in cross-functional research and engineering teams

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA

    Skills

    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Benchmarkingunmatched
    • Computer Scienceunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Debugging Skillsunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Environmental Managementunmatched
    • GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)unmatched
    • Machine Learningunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Open Sourceunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
    • Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
    • Prototypingunmatched
    • Publicationsunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • Reinforcement Learningunmatched

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