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Senior Research Scientist - DPU & AI Infra

ByteDance

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Sep 27, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
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ByteDance DPU team is building foundational computing infrastructure for ByteDance and Volcano Engine Public Cloud, aiming to advance the architecture, development, and research of next-generation software-hardware technologies across compute, networking, and storage for cloud and AI computing.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in C/C++ development and debugging.
  • Strong Linux systems development experience.
  • Solid understanding of compute, network architecture, and operating systems.
  • Background in at least one of: software-hardware co-design, distributed systems, high-performance networking, or AI/ML systems.
  • Experience with software-hardware co-design (networking, storage, or distributed compute).
  • Hands-on experience with network virtualization (OVS, SR-IOV, eBPF).
  • Familiarity with DPDK and high-performance user-space networking.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop DPU network software with a focus 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, leveraging DPUs, GPUs, and custom hardware to optimize distributed training and inference.
  • Drive end-to-end performance optimization, from OS kernels and drivers to user-space runtime systems.
  • Contribute to architecture design, technical proposals, and long-term research directions.

Other

  • B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields; or Ph.D. with strong research/publications.
  • 3+ years of relevant industry experience (exception for Ph.D. with strong background).
  • Ph.D. in related fields with research training and publications.
  • Bonus points for hardware acceleration experience, FPGA/ASIC/GPU/CUDA
  • Bonus points for experience with NCCL Collectives along with AI communication patterns and parallelization techniques