ByteDance currently has 112 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on serving infrastructure, accounting for 39% of the total, followed by agents at 27%. Engineering is the most frequent function, with research also being a significant area. The company is hiring for these positions primarily in the United States. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, inference_infra, and multimodal. In the last 30 days, ByteDance added 14 new AI roles, representing a 27% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 109 active AI roles, down 43% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Serve · Engineering.
ByteDance currently has 115 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Cloud Acceleration Engineer – DPU & AI Infra (2), LLM AIOps Development Engineer - Data Center Networking (2), Multimodal Model Training and Inference Optimization Engineer (2), Research Engineer - LLM Training Infrastructure - Seed Infra (2), Research Engineer - LLM/VLM Inference Optimization (Seed Infra) (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
ByteDance's active AI hiring is concentrated in: serving infrastructure (38%), agents (25%), post-training (12%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
ByteDance is hiring AI talent in: United States (115 roles).
Job postings at ByteDance most frequently mention: Machine Learning, Production ML Systems, Algorithms & Data Structures, GPU Computing, Optimization Methods.
In the past 30 days, ByteDance has posted 2 new AI-related roles. That is a -78% change versus the prior 30 days (9 → 2).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Brand Campaign Strategy Manager (Travel) - TikTok Local Services Senior Brand Campaign Strategy Manager for TikTok Local Services, focusing on planning and executing marketing campaigns to connect users with local businesses and drive transactions. Responsibilities include budget management, goal setting, resource allocation, and post-campaign analysis, collaborating with various internal teams. | — | 0 |
| Content Operations Specialist (US & International) - Douyin, XR ByteDance is seeking a Content Operations Specialist for their Douyin XR streaming platform in the US and international markets. The role involves end-to-end operational management, including content curation, user growth initiatives, third-party app integration, and acting as the voice of the US user to R&D and Product teams. The specialist will also analyze key metrics and report on them, and engage with local XR creators and companies. Requires 3+ years of experience in content operations or app growth, deep understanding of US pop culture and streaming trends, fluent English and Chinese, and strong execution and analytical skills. XR experience and understanding of spatial environments are preferred. | — | 0 |
| Technical Project Manager - Resource Management ByteDance Cloud Team is seeking a Technical Project Manager to manage the full lifecycle of global core cloud resource delivery, ensuring compliant, cost-effective, and efficient solutions. This role involves demand forecasting, resource allocation, cost management, risk mitigation, and process standardization to support the company's global AI competition. | — | 0 |
| Supply Chain Sourcing Manager - CDN This role is for a Supply Chain Sourcing Manager focused on CDN infrastructure services, including servers, network equipment, and logistics. Responsibilities include executing sourcing strategies, managing RFX processes, contract lifecycle, tracking quotations, maintaining price validation, assisting with supplier onboarding, and supporting TCO analysis. The role requires a strong understanding of the IDC/CDN/POP datacenter hardware supply chain and related services. | — | 0 |
| U.S. International Tax Senior Manager (Los Angeles) Seeking a U.S. International Tax Senior Manager to join the Tax Department, supporting a broad range of tax matters. This role involves working with domestic and non-US tax country managers and cross-functional teams to assess tax implications of ByteDance’s and its affiliates’ overall tax positions, products, business developments, and operational initiatives. Responsibilities include participating in domestic and cross-border discussions, collecting and analyzing financial data, supporting tax calculations and modeling, and developing practical, business-oriented tax guidance. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical knowledge of U.S. domestic and international tax, sound judgment, hands-on modeling capabilities, and the ability to translate complex tax concepts into clear, actionable business recommendations. This individual should be intellectually curious, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced global environment. | — | 0 |
| U.S. International Tax Senior Manager (San Jose) Seeking a U.S. International Tax Senior Manager to join the Tax Department, supporting a broad range of tax matters. This role involves working with domestic and non-US tax country managers and cross-functional teams to assess tax implications of ByteDance’s and its affiliates’ overall tax positions, products, business developments, and operational initiatives. Responsibilities include participating in domestic and cross-border discussions, collecting and analyzing financial data, supporting tax calculations and modeling, and developing practical tax guidance. The ideal candidate will have strong technical knowledge of U.S. domestic and international tax, sound judgment, hands-on modeling capabilities, and the ability to translate complex tax concepts into clear, actionable business recommendations. The individual should be intellectually curious, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced global environment. | — | 0 |
| Product Operations Manager - PICO Store Product Operations Manager for ByteDance's PICO XR platform, focusing on the Entertainment vertical (streaming video, sports, music). The role involves owning and growing content distribution, defining and executing app and content traffic strategy across PICO eco services channels, optimizing discovery mechanisms, improving conversion efficiency, and scaling global distribution capabilities. Responsibilities include managing the full content lifecycle, designing campaigns, social engagement, testing, data optimization, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data, Business Development, and Developer teams. | — | 0 |
| Senior Network Capacity Planning Engineer Senior Network Capacity Planning Engineer responsible for end-to-end network planning for large-scale data center and backbone networks, translating product growth and traffic patterns into multi-quarter and multi-year capacity plans, identifying risk hotspots, and driving investment and delivery priorities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Leader Security and Safety Operations - Data Centers Senior Leader for Security and Safety Operations in Data Centers, responsible for implementing and enforcing security and EHS policies, overseeing physical security and EHS operations, conducting audits, and coordinating with various stakeholders. The role involves developing security strategies, managing incidents, and ensuring compliance with global safety programs and local regulations. | — | 0 |
| US Tax Planning Manager (Los Angeles) Seeking a US Tax Planning Manager to support a broad range of tax matters, working with US and international tax business partners, country managers, and cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include assessing tax implications of ByteDance’s and its affiliates’ overall tax positions, products, business developments, and operational initiatives. The role involves participating in domestic and cross-border discussions, collecting and analyzing financial data, supporting tax calculations and modeling, and developing practical tax guidance. Requires strong technical knowledge of US domestic and international tax, modeling capabilities, and the ability to translate complex tax concepts into clear business recommendations. | — | 0 |
| US Tax Planning Manager (San Jose) This role is for a US Tax Planning Manager responsible for assessing tax implications of business developments and operational initiatives, supporting tax calculations and modeling, and providing tax guidance. It requires strong technical knowledge of US domestic and international tax, modeling capabilities, and the ability to translate complex tax concepts into business recommendations. Fluency in Mandarin is also required. | — | 0 |
| North America - Overseas Offline Sales Manager- PICO- San Jose This role is for an Overseas Offline Sales Manager for PICO's XR devices, focusing on building and managing international retail presence, distribution networks, and driving sell-through. The role involves market entry, distributor and retail partnership management, operational excellence in sales and inventory, in-store experience standardization, and stakeholder alignment with HQ and legal/compliance teams. Requires 5+ years in international offline sales or channel management in premium consumer electronics, with experience in multi-country territories and a strong results-driven mindset. | — | 0 |
| Mobility Operation Specialist - HR Operation - Seattle This role focuses on managing and optimizing the employee mobility lifecycle within HR operations, including immigration, relocation, and tax services. It requires expertise in HR processes and vendor management to ensure efficient and compliant operations. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Security Engineering - San Jose ByteDance is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer for their Security Engineering team in San Jose. This role involves designing and implementing security SRE frameworks, building cutting-edge SRE technologies for system deployment, upgrade, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The engineer will also focus on automation, intelligence, and monitoring of SRE infrastructure, and support cross-functional teams with security products and services. The role requires strong programming skills, experience with distributed systems, cloud-native frameworks like Kubernetes, and SRE tools. | — | 0 |
| Network Software Development Engineer Develop and test core functionalities of the Network Operating System (NOS) for hyperscale data center networks and AI infrastructure. Research and implement next-generation switch software for network monitoring, telemetry, load balancing, congestion control, and system reliability. Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Infrastructure Architect - Ashburn This role focuses on optimizing AI server costs and automating processes within ByteDance's cloud infrastructure supply chain system. The goal is to ensure the availability of computing resources for the company's AI business development by managing resource planning, platform module improvements, and architecture evolution. | — | 0 |
| Global Marketing Lead, AI Coding Tools Marketing Lead for ByteDance's AI coding tools (TRAE), focusing on global strategy, go-to-market plans, and developer engagement. Requires 3+ years in marketing technical products, with preferred experience in AI coding tools and developer communities. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Site Acquisition Manager - Infrastructure Power & Energy Seeking a Data Center Site Acquisition Manager to support global energy expertise for hyper-scale data centers. Responsibilities include leading utility and power due diligence, managing energy supply, supporting lifecycle power management, and conducting energy cost analysis. Requires 5+ years of experience in infrastructure development and acquisition with a focus on power and utility, and 3+ years managing utility agreements and energy projects. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Site Acquisition Manager - Infrastructure Power & Energy ByteDance is seeking a Data Center Site Acquisition Manager to manage power and energy functions, including availability analysis and reliability due diligence for site expansion. The role involves working with various internal teams and external stakeholders to manage construction and service projects, focusing on utility and power due diligence, energy supply management, lifecycle power management, and energy cost analysis. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Site Acquisition Manager - Infrastructure Power & Energy ByteDance is seeking a Data Center Site Acquisition Manager to oversee power and energy functions for their global data centers. This role involves leading utility due diligence, managing energy supply, supporting power lifecycle management, and conducting energy cost analysis. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in real estate/tech infrastructure development, utility agreements, and energy markets, with a focus on power and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Network Engineer, Global BackBone ByteDance is seeking a Network Engineer for its Global BackBone team to design, build, and operate hyperscale data-center networking solutions. The role involves driving network design, buildout projects, and operations for high availability and performance, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and managing vendor engagements. Requires expertise in large-scale global backbone network design and operation, including TE, Segment Routing, BGP, ISIS, and experience with DataCenter, Ex-Network, and POP Networks. | — | 0 |
| Researcher - Interdisciplinary - San Francisco This role is for a researcher focused on interdisciplinary studies, economic and philosophical studies, global history, and international affairs. The responsibilities include providing analysis and recommendations through desk research, building relationships with scholars and academic institutions, and drafting reports for senior business leaders. The role requires excellent big-picture thinking, a strong academic network, teamwork, and communication skills. Preferred qualifications include a background in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) or similar social sciences/humanities, and 5+ years of research/industry experience. | — | 0 |
| Internal Controls Business Partner This role focuses on internal controls and risk management within a global team, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations for a fast-growing technology company. The candidate will design, implement, and assess controls, partnering with various departments to embed them into business processes while enabling agility and scalability. | — | 0 |
| Backend Software Engineer - Platforms Backend Software Engineer for ByteDance's Data Center Systems (DCS) platform team, focusing on building and managing tooling for data center operations, infrastructure, and resource management to provide stable, high-performance computing resources for all business lines. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Leader - RD & SRE This role focuses on building, scaling, and operating global infrastructure, including hyperscale data centers, cloud solutions, and foundational infrastructure services. Responsibilities include developing internal tools, automation, monitoring systems, managing cloud images, improving operational efficiency, and handling incidents. The role requires strong SRE/DevOps experience with Linux, networking, storage, and programming languages like Go or Python, along with familiarity with public cloud platforms and reliability engineering practices. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Internal Control Partner - Data Center - San Jose This role partners with the Data Center business to lead global projects, review policies, conduct internal control reviews, and perform risk assessments. It involves understanding business situations, analyzing data to identify high-risk areas, and providing management suggestions to optimize business processes. The role also requires utilizing data analytics tools to identify and address risks, drive process improvements, and support continuous risk monitoring. Additionally, it involves developing relationships with stakeholders, providing risk advisory support, and participating in major projects with risk assessments and process supervision. | — | 0 |
| XR Module Engineer - Tunable Lens and Multiphysics simulation - PICO - San Jose Engineering role focused on the development and design of tunable lenses and multiphysics simulation for XR eyepiece systems, requiring a PhD in a related field and experience in optical design and FEA. | — | 0 |
| Backend Software Engineer - Platforms Backend Software Engineer for ByteDance's Data Center Systems (DCS) platform team. This role focuses on building and managing tooling for data center operations, including infrastructure, server delivery, asset management, and cloud/server system services. The goal is to provide stable, high-performance, and cost-effective computing resources for the company's business lines. Responsibilities include developing platforms and tools for internal/external teams, improving engineering productivity, and maintaining software. Requirements include a BS in CS or equivalent, experience with distributed systems, and specific experience in DICM, ITOM, or ITSM. GPU, big data (Hadoop/Kafka), or streaming experience is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Supply Chain Manager - Global Logistics Supply Chain Manager role focused on data center operations, including logistics, asset lifecycle management, RMA workflows, and process optimization. Requires experience in global supply chain, data center infrastructure, and project management. | — | 0 |
| User Researcher, PICO (Third-party Associate) User Researcher for PICO (Third-party Associate) at ByteDance, focusing on user research, product strategy, and market research within the consumer domain. This is a 3-month temporary assignment managed by a third-party agency. | — | 0 |
| Key Opinion Leader (KOL) PICO - San Jose ByteDance's PICO department is seeking a Key Opinion Leader (KOL) to develop and execute a U.S. Public Relations and KOL strategy to boost brand authority in the XR market. The role involves building relationships with tech journalists and influencers, creating content, managing public sentiment, analyzing campaign ROI, and aligning U.S. messaging with global roadmaps. Requires 5+ years of PR experience in consumer electronics, gaming, or high-tech, a track record of media placements and influencer partnerships, and strong copywriting skills. Experience with VR/AR and global companies is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Senior Social Media and User Operations Specialist PICO- San Jose This role focuses on building ByteDance's PICO brand presence in the US market through social media strategy, user community growth, content creation, and sentiment analysis. It involves managing social media calendars, executing user operations campaigns, leading community engagement on platforms like Discord and Reddit, and producing content that showcases PICO's hardware. The role requires experience in social media marketing or user operations, proficiency in video platforms and content creation, and strong copywriting skills. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead Manager, Global Traffic Infrastructure Tech Lead Manager for Global Traffic Infrastructure (GTI) team at ByteDance, focusing on edge infrastructure management, platformization, and cost-efficiency. The role involves leading a senior engineering team, defining technical vision, and ensuring reliability and scalability of global traffic infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead Manager, Global Traffic Infrastructure Tech Lead Manager for Global Traffic Infrastructure, focusing on edge infrastructure management, platformization, and scaling for global edge business. Requires strong leadership in cloud-native and networking domains. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead / Architect, Global Traffic Infrastructure This role focuses on building and evolving the global network and edge traffic infrastructure, including cloud-native networking stacks and Kubernetes-based systems. The goal is to improve global traffic scheduling, gateway performance, and resilience for large-scale, latency-sensitive services. It involves designing platform-level abstractions and driving architectural decisions around load balancing and traffic steering. | — | 0 |
| Senior SRE - Global Traffic Infrastructure Senior SRE role focused on building and operating a global edge traffic infrastructure platform. Responsibilities include defining and executing SLO strategy, managing release and change governance, leading incident response, driving stability programs, and ensuring operability in system design. Requires strong experience in SRE methodologies, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native/networking fundamentals. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead, Site Reliability Engineering – Global Traffic Platform Tech Lead for Site Reliability Engineering focusing on a Global Traffic Platform. Responsibilities include defining and executing SLO strategy, managing release and change governance, building a global on-call model, leading incident postmortems, and driving stability programs. Requires strong SRE methodology, CI/CD, resilience, observability, cloud-native, and engineering leadership experience. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead, Site Reliability Engineering – Global Traffic Platform Tech Lead for Site Reliability Engineering on a Global Traffic Platform team, focusing on managing edge infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Responsibilities include defining SLO/SLI strategies, release and change governance, incident management, postmortems, and designing for operability. | — | 0 |
| Operations Specialist - Global Support Operations Center ByteDance is seeking an Operations Specialist for their Global Support Operations Center (GSOC) to provide global governance, performance oversight, and operational standardization for Regional Security Operations Centers (RSOCs). This role involves real-time operational coordination, incident response, and ensuring alignment with global standards across security, life safety, and EHS. The specialist will develop SOPs, track KPIs, manage vendors, and provide executive reporting, acting as a shift-level authority for operational decisions. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer -Distributed KV Caching and Storage Systems Software Development Engineer focused on building and optimizing distributed KV caching and storage systems for ByteDance's global infrastructure, serving core business scenarios with strict availability, latency, and cost requirements. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and ensuring the reliability and efficiency of these systems, as well as building operational ecosystems and exploring AI applications in database systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer -Distributed KV Caching and Storage Systems Senior Software Development Engineer to design and develop core distributed KV caching and storage systems, focusing on low latency, high throughput, and high availability. Responsibilities include building planet-scale reliability, driving efficiency improvements, creating a production-grade ecosystem with automation and monitoring, and implementing capabilities like backup and tiered storage. The role also involves researching new hardware and technologies, including "AI+DB" directions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer - Distributed KV Caching and Storage Systems Senior Software Development Engineer to design and develop core KV caching and storage systems for ByteDance's global infrastructure. Responsibilities include building planet-scale reliability, driving efficiency improvements, creating a production-grade ecosystem with automated operations and monitoring, and implementing capabilities like bulkload and backup. The role requires strong fundamentals in distributed systems, databases, networking, and multi-threaded programming, with hands-on experience in large-scale distributed systems. Experience with modern hardware and applying AI techniques to database systems is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer - DCS Cloud Tech Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer responsible for building, scaling, and operating ByteDance's global hyper-scale infrastructure, including public and private clouds. The role involves developing automation tools, managing cloud AMIs, and engaging in technical operations and on-call rotations. Requires strong experience in Linux operations, SRE, or DevOps, proficiency in programming languages like Go or Python, and deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, reliability practices, and cloud platforms. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer - DCS Cloud Tech Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer responsible for building, scaling, and operating ByteDance's global hyper-scale infrastructure, including public and private clouds, server fleet management, and cloud solutions. The role involves developing automation tools, managing cloud images, ensuring compliance, and handling technical operations and incident response. Requires strong experience in Linux operations, SRE, DevOps, platform development, and system fundamentals, with preferred experience in public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and GPU cluster operations. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Manager – Non-Gaming Ecosystem, PICO XR - San Jose ByteDance is seeking a Business Development Manager for their PICO XR brand to drive partnerships in the non-gaming ecosystem, focusing on areas like productivity, collaboration, and AI-driven tools. The role involves sourcing, negotiating, and managing partnerships from inception through launch and scaling, requiring close collaboration with internal teams like Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Legal. | — | 0 |
| Network Acquisition Manager - AMER This role is responsible for the acquisition of co-locations and network connectivity services for ByteDance's global edge network infrastructure. The Network Acquisition Manager will focus on the strategy and commercial aspects, including market research, supplier management, cost analysis, and contract negotiation to support the company's growth. | — | 0 |
| Network Acquisition Manager - AMER ByteDance is seeking a Network Acquisition Manager to support the company's data center development and global edge network expansion. This role involves sourcing and building hyper-scale data centers and distributed edge networks by acquiring co-locations and network connectivities. The manager will lead commercial and technical negotiations with suppliers, develop acquisition strategies, conduct market research, manage supplier relationships, and perform cost and performance evaluations. The ideal candidate has experience in the infrastructure industry, specifically with co-locations, data centers, or network providers, and strong negotiation and project management skills. | — | 0 |
| Network Acquisition Manager - AMER ByteDance is seeking a Network Acquisition Manager to support the company's rapid growth by sourcing and building hyper-scale data centers and global edge networks. This role focuses on acquiring co-locations and network connectivity from a strategic and commercial perspective, managing supplier relationships, conducting market research, and analyzing costs to support network infrastructure growth in the Americas and EMEA. | — | 0 |
| Technical Project Manager - Data Center Development This role is for a Technical Project Manager responsible for the end-to-end delivery of data centers and network infrastructure. The focus is on construction, project management, capacity planning, and ensuring efficient infrastructure services to support business growth. It does not involve AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Image Sensor Analog Design - PICO Lab - San Jose Design and layout pixel and readout circuits of custom image sensors for AR/VR products, lead other designers for peripheral IPs, and collaborate with hardware and software teams for seamless integration. | — | 0 |