Responsibilities
- Design and build ML platform orchestration capabilities using Kubernetes Operators, container runtimes, and lifecycle management for jobs, services, and stateful workloads.
- Build multi-tenant resource and quota systems supporting priorities, preemption, fair sharing, elasticity, cross-cluster scheduling, GPU utilization, and cost efficiency.
- Develop online model-serving lifecycle orchestration for model and image distribution, deployment, upgrades, rollback, autoscaling, multi-cluster operations, and disaster recovery.
- Build serving orchestration and traffic-management capabilities for disaggregated serving clusters, including topology-aware scheduling, KV Cache affinity, request routing, and QoS/SLA management.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, C++, or Python, with a foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Familiarity with Linux, operating systems, computer networks, concurrent programming, and distributed systems.
- Ability to investigate systems using source code, metrics, logs, profiling, and experiments, and to define measurements, test hypotheses, and validate improvements.
- Demonstrated ownership and collaboration through coursework, research, internships, open-source contributions, or other engineering projects.
- Preferred experience includes Kubernetes, container runtimes, resource scheduling, quota management, multi-tenant systems, FinOps, online services, gateways, traffic management, autoscaling, performance optimization, highly available distributed systems, GPU/NPU programming, heterogeneous resource scheduling, model distribution, or inference performance analysis.
- Preferred familiarity with infrastructure projects such as Kubernetes, Volcano, Koordinator, and OpenKruise, and model-serving systems such as vLLM, SGLang, Triton, KServe, and Ray Serve.
Benefits
- Internship program with hands-on experience, industry exposure, real-world engineering work, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals.
- 2027 start date; applicants should state their availability and start and end dates in their resume.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and candidates may apply to a maximum of two positions across the company and affiliates globally.
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About ByteDance
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