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Research Intern (RDMA/High Speed Network) - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance

$45 - $57
Nov 14, 2025
Seattle, WA, United States of America
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ByteDance Networking is looking to solve the problem of designing, building, and operating global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance for hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power popular apps like Douyin and TikTok.

Requirements

  • Be familiar with network protocols like TCP and RoCEv2, have experience in network programming based on Socket and verbs APIs;
  • Be familiar with Data Center congestion control algorithms, understand their pros and cons;
  • Knowledge of scale-up protocols like PCIe, NVLink, UALink, and their differences with scale-out network protocols;
  • Be familiar with the latest advances in the area of high-speed network systems, including RDMA, congestion control, AI network optimization and so on;
  • Proficiency in one or several mainstream programming languages, including C/C++, Python, Go and so on;
  • Have some knowledge of GPU architecture;
  • Experience in developing high performance communication frameworks (including NCCL, MPI and RPC libraries) is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design, optimization, implementation and deployment of high-performance transport protocols to support AI/LLM applications.
  • Design, optimization, implementation and deployment of congestion control algorithms to support AI/LLM applications.
  • Research and development of high-performance AI communication framework, network protocol stacks, and co-design optimization of host-network-application to improve the scalability, reliability and performance of AI/LLM networks.
  • Follow the latest technologies from academia and industry, identify the innovative parts of the system and present in academic papers.

Other

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in computer networking or a related technical discipline.
  • Be familiar with AI training/inference systems and software-hardware co-design.
  • Having top tier networking conference publications such as NSDI,SIGCOMM,OSDI,SOSP etc.
  • Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).