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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 in the AMS region. It involves managing construction, MEP installation, commissioning, network provisioning, and server deployment, with a focus on carbon-neutrality and supporting business growth. The role requires strong cross-functional leadership and experience in mission-critical construction delivery. | — | 0 |
| Team Lead - AR Eyepiece Module Integration - PICO - San Jose Lead the AR optical module team in defining product specifications, designing solutions, and developing prototypes for AR optical modules and core components. Integrate cutting-edge technologies, and collaborate closely with core-component, display, mechanical, process, test, and quality teams to resolve key technical challenges. Guide the project team through the full lifecycle from proof of concept to NPI, ensuring on-time delivery of optical modules and core components. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Sourcing Manager This role focuses on sourcing, procurement, and commercial management of large-scale public cloud capacity from hyperscale providers. The Cloud Sourcing Manager will build and manage vendor relationships, negotiate cloud service agreements, and develop sourcing strategies in partnership with internal engineering, finance, and legal teams. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Sourcing Manager Seeking a Cloud Service Sourcing Specialist to lead the sourcing, procurement, and commercial management of large-scale public cloud capacity across global markets for ByteDance's Infrastructure team. This role involves managing relationships with hyperscale public cloud providers, negotiating agreements, and developing sourcing strategies to support global growth and platform scale. | — | 0 |
| Senior Capacity Planning Manager - Data Center This role is for a Senior Capacity Planning Manager in a Data Center Development team. Responsibilities include global data center capacity planning, resource management, demand forecasting, and optimizing power utilization efficiency. The role also involves digitalization of request workflows, supporting resource adjustments, and conducting market research on data center trends, policies, and regulations. It requires a strong understanding of data center architecture and the full lifecycle, with a focus on ensuring stable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure services. | — | 0 |
| PC Publishing & PR Manager - Games Manage PR and publishing for PC games in European and North American markets, including media strategy, exhibition collaboration, and platform operations. | — | 0 |
| Network Engineer - Operation Network Engineer role focused on the operation and incident response for ByteDance's global network infrastructure, including backbone, data center, and cloud networks. Responsibilities include supporting daily operations, leading troubleshooting during failures, collaborating with other engineering teams, and conducting root cause analysis. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer, Relational Database Service (RDS) Software Development Engineer role focused on building and maintaining relational database products and services for ByteDance's global infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing and developing platform components, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance, and handling tasks like scaling, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer, Relational Database Service (RDS) Senior Software Development Engineer role focused on building and maintaining relational database services (RDS) for ByteDance's global infrastructure. Responsibilities include feature development, platform design, performance testing, and ensuring reliability, scalability, and high availability of database systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer, Relational Database Service (RDS) Senior Software Development Engineer to build and own cutting-edge database products supporting ByteDance’s global infrastructure. Responsibilities include enhancing relational databases, distributed caches, key-value stores, and other database services in a cloud-native environment. Focus on database and system administration, platform services, disaster recovery, and high availability. | — | 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 |
| Engineering Design Program Manager - Data Center Engineering Engineering Design Program Manager for Data Center Engineering at ByteDance, focusing on enabling business growth through new data center capacities and ensuring continuous stability of engineering systems. The role involves site selection, contracting, design, build-out, and operational support for Americas regional projects, including incident response and root cause analysis. It also includes participation in data center R&D research projects. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Design Program Manager - Data Center Engineering Seeking a Data Center Engineering expert for the Americas region to provide subject matter expertise in site selection, design, construction, and operations support. The role involves collaborating with global teams on R&D research projects. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Design Program Manager - Data Center Engineering Seeking an Engineering Design Program Manager for the Global Data Center Engineering team, focusing on enabling business growth through new data center capacities and ensuring continuous stability. The role involves site selection, contractual evaluations, design solutions, project execution, construction support, and operational support for Americas regional projects. Responsibilities also include participation in data center R&D research projects and global team collaborations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Production System Engineer - Ashburn This role focuses on the engineering and operations of large-scale data center infrastructure and server fleets, including deployment, monitoring, automation, and lifecycle management. It involves ensuring the stability, efficiency, and scalability of production systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Program Manager – Smart Wearables- San Jose The Senior Program Manager will partner with engineering teams on initiatives spanning the full product lifecycle, from incubation to delivery. This role involves end-to-end planning, execution, and de-risking of complex, cross-functional efforts involving hardware, software, and AI/ML technologies. Key responsibilities include driving program execution, leading cross-functional collaboration, coordinating incubation efforts, managing risks, communicating with stakeholders, optimizing processes, and managing resources and vendors. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field, 3+ years of program management experience in consumer electronics or wearables, and proven experience leading cross-functional projects involving hardware, software, and AI/ML. | — | 0 |
| Senior Tax Manager - Global Monetization Product & Technology Senior Tax Manager role focused on global monetization product and technology, ensuring tax compliance for ByteDance's products and business growth. Requires strong tax-technical skills, ability to partner with business teams, and advise on complex international tax matters, digital advertising, and e-commerce. Mandarin fluency is essential. | — | 0 |
| Operations Manager - Supply Chain and Procurement Operations Manager - Supply Chain and Procurement for Data Center development, focusing on process standardization, systemization, and compliance assessment across global regions. Requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and analysis of operational performance indicators. | — | 0 |
| Tax Manager - Global Monetization Product & Technology ByteDance is seeking an International Tax Business Partner to support its global business growth. The role involves performing tax assessments for new products, responding to tax inquiries, supporting tax-related decision-making for commercial contracts and product launches, and monitoring changes in global tax legislation. The candidate will partner with internal non-tax stakeholders and participate in global tax projects. Proficiency in Mandarin is essential. | — | 0 |
| HR Business Partner - Data - San Jose HR Business Partner for the Data Team at ByteDance, focusing on talent acquisition, business strategy, HR practices, talent development, performance management, employee relations, and driving employee engagement. The role supports the data-driven innovations within the company. | — | 0 |
| HR Business Partner - Data - Seattle HR Business Partner for the Data Team at ByteDance, focusing on talent acquisition and HR practices to support data-driven innovations. The role involves partnering with business units, managing employee relations, performance management, and driving employee engagement. | — | 0 |
| Fullstack Software Engineer, Authorization Fullstack Software Engineer role focused on building and operating ByteDance's large-scale authorization system (Kani), which provides unified permission management and access control capabilities (RBAC, PBAC, ABAC) across all product lines. Responsibilities include developing features for web console, backend services, optimizing approval flows, enhancing user experience for notifications, supporting integrations, implementing compliance risk detection, and improving system performance, reliability, and scalability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Tax Planning Manager - LATAM Senior Tax Planning Manager for ByteDance's Spanish-speaking Latin America portfolio, focusing on tax planning initiatives, advice, and compliance. Requires strong knowledge of LATAM tax matters and fluency in Spanish. | — | 0 |
| Executive Producer, Short Drama Executive Producer for Short Drama at ByteDance, responsible for supervising the budget, production, and schedule of English mini-series projects, analyzing creative trends, and collaborating with global partners. Requires 3+ years of film/TV experience, familiarity with the US market, and proficiency in both Chinese and English. | — | 0 |
| Marketing Lead of North America Consumer Market - PICO Marketing Lead for PICO's North America Consumer Market, responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategies, leading the marketing team, conducting market analysis, collaborating with sales and headquarters, and managing budgets. Requires 5 years of marketing experience in consumer electronics/tech, with 2 years in a CMO role, strong strategic thinking, brand building experience, US market familiarity, and leadership skills. | — | 0 |
| Content Media Manager-Game Content Media Manager for games at ByteDance, focusing on developing and executing content creator strategies, managing creator relationships and budgets, analyzing campaign performance, and monitoring community sentiment. | — | 0 |
| Creative Manager-Game Creative Manager for game publishing at ByteDance's ONE Studio, focusing on developing and overseeing creative direction for publishing materials (PVs, KVs, store assets) for global markets, aligning with player preferences and brand positioning. | — | 0 |
| System Architect - Server Hardware This role focuses on architecting, designing, and building server and storage systems for high performance and low cost. It involves evaluating new technologies, collaborating with various engineering teams (EE, ME, Thermal, Hardware, Network, IDC), analyzing application workloads, and working with industry partners and consortiums. The goal is to integrate cutting-edge technologies into their infrastructure and improve the cost-effectiveness and performance of their hardware systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Transfer Pricing Manager - AMS (Los Angeles) Senior Transfer Pricing Manager responsible for leading transfer pricing and tax matters in the Americas, with a focus on LATAM. This includes planning, policy setting, compliance, controversy, and providing expert support to the business. The role involves risk assessment, functional and financial analyses, and collaboration with external consultants for documentation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Transfer Pricing Manager - AMS (San Jose) Senior Transfer Pricing Manager role at ByteDance, based in San Jose, focusing on transfer pricing and tax matters in the Americas, with a special emphasis on LATAM. Responsibilities include planning, policy setting, compliance, controversy, and providing expert support to the business. Requires 5+ years of transfer pricing experience, a relevant bachelor's degree, strong data analysis and time management skills, and proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Network Security - San Jose Software Engineer for ByteDance's Network Security team, focusing on designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-level network security products and solutions like DDoS Defense, Web Application Security, and Bot Management. Requires strong Linux networking experience (C/Golang, TCP/IP, XDP/eBPF desirable) and a background in network security domains. | — | 0 |
| Head of North America Consumer Market - PICO ByteDance is seeking a Head of North America Consumer Market for its PICO XR department. This role is responsible for establishing and managing the North America team, conducting market research, formulating market strategies, and ensuring business objectives are met. The position also involves collaborating on market operation policies, coordinating with the compliance department, and maintaining relationships with clients and media. The ideal candidate will have experience in the consumer electronics/FMCG industry, team management experience, and a proven ability to achieve market breakthroughs. | — | 0 |
| IT & CAD Infrastructure Engineer, Video Silicon IP This role is for an IT & CAD Infrastructure Engineer focused on managing and supporting the hardware design environment for video silicon IP. Responsibilities include managing access, user accounts, storage, version control, computing clusters, and EDA tools. A key responsibility is deploying AI models into this chip design environment, but the core function is IT infrastructure support within a semiconductor context. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Foundational Storage, ByteStore Senior Site Reliability Engineer for ByteDance's self-developed distributed storage system, ByteStore. The role focuses on reliability engineering, operational automation, system performance, capacity planning, and incident response to ensure high availability, durability, and low latency for various storage and computing products. Responsibilities include designing SRE tooling, managing deployments, researching new reliability technologies, partnering with business teams, participating in on-call duties, and troubleshooting complex cross-layer issues. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Foundational Storage, ByteStore Site Reliability Engineer for a self-developed distributed storage system (ByteStore) that supports various storage and computing products. The role involves reliability engineering, operational automation, system performance profiling, capacity planning, and incident response to ensure strict SLOs are met. Responsibilities include designing SRE tooling, participating in deployment processes, researching new reliability technologies, partnering with business teams, participating in operational changes and on-call duties, and troubleshooting complex cross-layer issues. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer, Network Monitoring & Alerts Develop and improve datacenter network monitoring services, optimize network data collection, processing and visualization tools. Create network alert systems using trained learning algorithms for real-time anomaly detection and fault location. Collaborate with network engineers to develop automated network fault diagnosis systems and provide troubleshooting analysis services. Develop a network data platform based on network metadata, providing metrics that accurately reflect the status and trends of the network in real-time. | — | 0 |
| Research Engineer, Video Processing and Codec (Realtime Codec Optimizations) This role focuses on research and development of real-time video codecs and processing algorithms for live-streaming products. It involves designing and optimizing encoding/decoding frameworks and algorithms for various video types on heterogeneous platforms, with a strong emphasis on traditional video compression techniques and potentially neural network-based approaches. | — | 0 |
| Video Codec Algorithm Engineer, Realtime Codec Optimizations The role focuses on designing and developing real-time video codecs and optimization algorithms for live-streaming products. It involves research into video encoding algorithms and visual quality-oriented processing, with a strong emphasis on C/C++ programming and understanding of compression algorithms. While familiarity with neural network-based coding is preferred, the core of the role is in traditional video compression engineering and research, not AI model development. | — | 0 |
| System Engineer (Operating System) - System Technologies and Engineering System Engineer role focused on developing, maintaining, and optimizing the Linux Operating System for large-scale data centers. Responsibilities include system software development, performance optimization, automated monitoring, deployment, upgrading, and supporting new hardware platforms. The role also involves optimizing AlOps tools for large clusters. | — | 0 |
| Creator Partnership Senior Associate, Lifestyle - Lemon8 This role focuses on creator partnerships and content strategy for the Lemon8 social media platform. Responsibilities include analyzing platform trends, managing creator relationships, coaching creators on content quality, and using data analysis to inform strategy and improve user experience. The role requires experience with content ecosystems, algorithms, and working with large datasets. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Data (Seattle) Site Reliability Engineer focused on data infrastructure, including applied machine learning (AML) support, data center, data infrastructure, and recommendation systems. Responsibilities include service lifecycle management, designing monitoring frameworks, developing cloud-managed data infrastructure components (Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Flink), and scaling systems through automation. Requires a Bachelor's degree, 3+ years of programming experience, and familiarity with Unix/Linux, networking, and distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Data Site Reliability Engineer focused on data infrastructure and applied machine learning (AML) at ByteDance. Responsibilities include managing the full service lifecycle, designing software platforms and monitoring, developing cloud-managed data infrastructure components (Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Flink), and establishing scaling mechanisms. Requires a BS in CS, 3+ years of programming experience, and familiarity with distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Content & Creator Operation Expert - Lemon8 This role focuses on content operations and creator management for the Lemon8 platform, aiming to build and scale high-quality vertical content. Responsibilities include analyzing content trends, optimizing content ecosystems, supporting creators, and formulating content strategies based on data and user research. The role requires hands-on experience in vertical content operations and creator engagement within a fast-paced tech environment. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead, Infrastructure Supply Chain Platform Tech Lead for ByteDance's infrastructure supply chain platform, focusing on backend development, system design, and team leadership to build and optimize an end-to-end business platform supporting data centers, servers, and related infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead - Data Infrastructure Site Reliability This role is for a Technical Lead in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focused on building and operating large-scale data infrastructure with high reliability and efficiency. The role involves deep technical leadership, architectural improvements, and collaboration across engineering, product, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient, scalable platforms. Key responsibilities include designing, developing, and operating cloud infrastructure, automating operations, troubleshooting production issues, and promoting best practices in system design and observability. The role requires strong expertise in areas like databases, Kubernetes, or Big Data systems. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead - Data Infrastructure Site Reliability Tech Lead for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focused on building and operating large-scale data infrastructure with high reliability and efficiency. The role involves deep technical leadership, architectural improvements, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, scalable platforms. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and operating cloud infrastructure, automating operations, troubleshooting complex issues, and promoting best practices in system design and observability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Mobile Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Core Shopping and Experience Senior Mobile Software Engineer for ByteDance's Global E-commerce Core Shopping and Experience team, focusing on building and optimizing the Product Details Page (PDP). The role involves native mobile development (Kotlin/Objective-C/Swift) and cross-platform development (React), with an emphasis on performance, resilience, modularity, and driving technical direction for a platform team. Requires strong problem-solving, collaboration, and a proven track record in mobile development and scaling high-traffic consumer apps. | — | 0 |
| Creator Partnership Associate (Fashion Vertical) - Lemon8 This role focuses on building and scaling creator ecosystems within the fashion vertical for the Lemon8 platform. Responsibilities include managing creator partnerships from sourcing to contract implementation, analyzing content performance, and coaching creators to improve content quality. The role requires identifying creators using data, fostering relationships, and analyzing insights to inform content strategy and user experience. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer - Cloud Native Databases Software Development Engineer focused on building and enhancing cloud-native database products, including relational databases, distributed caches, and various other database types. Responsibilities include designing and developing core database functionalities, conducting performance tests, implementing tests, participating in release processes, debugging, and solving complex cloud infrastructure problems. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead Software Engineer, Build System Tech Lead Software Engineer to design and implement scalable build systems for developer infrastructure, supporting CI/CD pipelines and large-scale distributed systems. Focus on monorepo build systems and performance optimization. | — | 0 |