Responsibilities
- Design and develop DPU network software focused on high performance, low latency, and reliability.
- Collaborate with hardware teams to build software-hardware co-design solutions for networking and storage acceleration.
- Explore AI/ML infrastructure acceleration using DPUs, GPUs, and custom hardware for distributed training and inference.
- Optimize performance across OS kernels, drivers, and user-space runtime systems.
- Contribute to architecture design, technical proposals, and long-term research directions.
Requirements
- Be completing or have recently completed a PhD in a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrate proficiency in C/C++ development and debugging.
- Have Linux systems development experience.
- Understand compute architecture, network architecture, and operating systems.
- Have a background in software-hardware co-design, distributed systems, high-performance networking, or AI/ML systems.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with network virtualization, DPDK, high-performance user-space networking, hardware acceleration, NCCL collectives, AI communication patterns, parallelization, or AI/ML infrastructure systems.
Benefits
- Graduate employees receive opportunities to pursue research ideas, tackle complex challenges, and grow within the team.
- Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of 2027 and should state availability and graduation date clearly in their resume.
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.