Research Engineer Graduate (Agent Systems & AI Coding Environment - Seed Infra) - 2026 Start (PhD)

Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd
  • Seattle, WA
    24 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.

    We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

    Responsibilities

    • Build agent harness and execution environments for AI coding and knowledge tasks (code execution, tool integration, sandboxing, system interaction)
    • Develop scalable orchestration frameworks for multi-step agent workflows (planning, tool use, memory, coordination)
    • Design evaluation and benchmarking systems to measure agent performance across complex, long-horizon tasks
    • Improve agent performance via prompting, data curation, and post-training in collaboration with model and RL teams
    • Partner with research and product teams to productionize agent systemsMinimum Qualifications:
    • Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
    • Strong programming skills (Python or similar) and solid system-building experience
    • Experience with LLM-based systems, pipelines, or tool-integrated workflows
    • Understanding of system design and building scalable infrastructure
    • Experience building agent harness / runtime systems or AI coding environments
    • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems, distributed job execution, and containerized/sandboxed code execution environments

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Familiarity with evaluation frameworks, prompting / finetuning / RL, or large-scale experimentation

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA

    Skills

    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Benchmarkingunmatched
    • Computer Engineeringunmatched
    • Computer Programmingunmatched
    • Computer Scienceunmatched
    • Design Evaluationunmatched
    • Dockerunmatched
    • Electrical Engineeringunmatched
    • Mathematicsunmatched
    • Memory Hardwareunmatched
    • Onboardingunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
    • Physicsunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • Reinforcement Learningunmatched
    • Scalable System Developmentunmatched

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