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 |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer, Cross Platform Software Engineer focused on improving JavaScript development tools, including build tools like Rspack and Rsbuild, to enhance R&D efficiency and product performance. | — | 0 |
| Tax Director - Americas (San Jose) Seeking an experienced Americas Tax Leader to oversee tax compliance, tax risk management, and tax planning across the Americas region. This role collaborates closely with Finance, Legal, and Business teams to ensure tax efficiency, compliance, and strong business alignment. | — | 0 |
| Tax Director - Americas (Los Angeles) Seeking an experienced Americas Tax Leader to oversee tax compliance, risk management, and planning for ByteDance across the Americas region. This role involves developing regional tax strategy, managing tax operations, advising on tax laws, supporting M&A, and driving operational excellence. Requires a Bachelor's degree, over 5 years of tax experience including team leadership, strong US tax knowledge, and familiarity with international tax frameworks. Experience in tech/digital industries and cross-border transactions is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Merchant Financing Solution Manager - Global Payment Product Manager for Merchant Financing Solutions within ByteDance's Global Payment team, focusing on designing, launching, and scaling credit products like Cash Advance, Term Loan, and Invoice Financing to support merchant growth and enhance liquidity. Requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, market analysis, and ensuring regulatory adherence. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Site Acquisition Manager (LATAM) - Seattle ByteDance is seeking a Data Center Site Acquisition Manager for the Americas market to manage leasing and acquisition of hyperscale data center capacity. Responsibilities include market analysis, site selection, negotiation of deals and leases, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. The role requires strong project management, analytical, and negotiation skills, with a proven track record in significant data center deals. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Video Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer for ByteDance's Video Cloud Infra team, focusing on building and managing global infrastructure for multimedia transport, storage, and processing. Responsibilities include system management, automation, and ensuring reliability and efficiency of large-scale distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Global Traffic Infrastructure Software Engineer for ByteDance's Global Traffic Infrastructure (GTI) team, focusing on developing and maintaining a data and billing platform for edge infrastructure. The role involves building enterprise-level edge computing platforms, managing large-scale data processing, and implementing observability and financial servicing platforms for edge products. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Global Traffic Infrastructure Senior Software Engineer focused on building and operating global traffic infrastructure, including edge Kubernetes clusters, CNI dataplane/control plane, L4/L7 load balancing, and ingress/gateway components. The role involves end-to-end delivery of cloud-native features, building observability, and collaborating with SRE and platform teams to provide standardized traffic infrastructure capabilities for edge services. | — | 0 |
| Image Sensor Digital Design Lead - PICO - SanJose Lead the digital design of custom image sensors for AR/VR products, including establishing specifications, RTL design, verification, synthesis, and supporting chip bring-up and integration with hardware and software teams. | — | 0 |
| Technical Sourcer - Seed - Los Angeles (Third-Party Associate) Technical Sourcer for the ByteDance Seed team, focusing on discovering new approaches to general intelligence and pushing the boundaries of AI. This role involves managing sourcing strategies, identifying technical talent through various channels, and collaborating with recruiters and hiring managers to optimize the recruiting process. The position is a 6-month temporary assignment managed by a third-party agency. | — | 0 |
| Technical Sourcer - Seed - Seattle (Third-Party Associate) Technical Sourcer for the ByteDance Seed team, focusing on discovering new approaches to general intelligence and pushing the boundaries of AI. Responsibilities include managing sourcing strategy, identifying and assessing talent pools, and collaborating with recruiters and hiring managers. This is a temporary, third-party agency role. | — | 0 |
| Technical Sourcer - Seed - San Jose (Third-Party Associate) Technical Sourcer for the ByteDance Seed team, focusing on discovering new approaches to general intelligence and pushing the boundaries of AI. Responsibilities include managing sourcing strategy, identifying candidates through various channels, developing talent pools, and collaborating with recruiters and hiring managers. Requires at least 1 year of sourcing experience, strong communication skills, and experience with research/sourcing tools. | — | 0 |
| Head of North America Enterprise PICO - San Jose Head of North America Enterprise PICO (XR department of ByteDance) responsible for achieving revenue targets, developing go-to-market strategy, leading sales teams, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires 5+ years of leadership in enterprise sales/business development, strong analytical and strategic planning skills, and ability to navigate complex organizations. Experience in Training, Education, Healthcare, or LBE verticals is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer-Infrastructure Delivery Platform Software Engineer-Infrastructure Delivery Platform role focused on building and maintaining critical modules for ByteDance's vertical industry order fulfillment and supply chain middle-office businesses. Responsibilities include designing and implementing technical systems, engaging in solution discussions, and resolving live issues. Requires a strong foundation in Java, microservices, OOP, database design, and middleware technologies. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead,Infrastructure Delivery Platform Tech Lead for Infrastructure Delivery Platform focusing on enterprise AI solutions in order fulfillment and supply chain management. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead Software Engineer - Spatial Web Tech Lead Software Engineer focused on building core technologies for immersive XR experiences, including runtime software, developer SDKs, and game engines. The role involves transforming the web into a platform for 2D, immersive, and spatial experiences, standardizing solutions, proposing APIs, and developing SDKs, frameworks, and tools. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Network Automation Engineer This role focuses on developing Python scripts for network automation and efficiency in data center network implementation and operations. It involves analyzing network data, creating software solutions using computer science principles, and collaborating with software development teams to design automated operational solutions. The role requires a strong understanding of network protocols and data center network architecture. | — | 0 |
| Network Engineer, Edge Networking Seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join ByteDance's Networking team, focusing on designing, building, and operating global, intelligent network infrastructure for hyperscale data centers. The role involves consolidating architecture, optimizing connectivity, and supporting edge infrastructure, requiring expertise in routing protocols, traffic engineering, and CDN/edge computing. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager - IaaS AI Infra Product Manager for ByteDance's cloud compute services (Volcano Engine), focusing on building next-generation AI infrastructure. Responsibilities include customer needs collection, R&D collaboration, go-to-market strategy, roadmap management, and competitive analysis. Requires a technical background in ToB product management and understanding of cloud infrastructure, with a curiosity for new technologies in AI, big data, and security. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer - Cloud Native Databases Software Development Engineer focused on building and enhancing cloud-native database products, including relational databases, distributed caches, key-value stores, and more. Responsibilities involve query processing, distributed systems, storage, and cluster management within a large-scale infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer - Cloud Native Databases Senior Software Development Engineer to build and own cutting-edge database products supporting ByteDance’s global infrastructure, focusing on areas like query processing, distributed processing, distributed storage, and cluster management in a cloud-native environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer - Cloud Native Databases Senior Software Development Engineer to build and own cutting-edge database products supporting ByteDance’s global infrastructure. Responsibilities include query processing, distributed processing, distributed storage, and cluster/system management in a cloud-native environment. | — | 0 |
| SDK Support Engineer (B2B) - PICO SDK Support Engineer for PICO's AR/VR brand, focusing on B2B projects. Responsibilities include troubleshooting SDK issues, gathering customer requirements, managing open-source demo libraries, and creating technical documentation. Requires experience in SDK development (Unity, Unreal, native), mobile app optimization, and software project management or technical support. | — | 0 |
| ISP/Display Firmware Prototype Engineer - PICO - San Jose Firmware Engineer for VR/AR imaging team, focusing on ISP and real-time control firmware, driver development, and algorithm optimization on SOC/FPGA prototypes. | — | 0 |
| Network Software Development Engineer, High Speed Network Develops and designs high-speed network technologies and software tools for ByteDance's hyperscale data-center networking solutions, focusing on reliability and availability. Requires experience with Golang/Python/C++, distributed systems, and Linux networking stack (TC, iptables, eBPF). | — | 0 |
| Network Software Development Engineer, High Speed Network Develops high-speed network technologies and software tools for ByteDance's hyperscale data center networking solutions, focusing on reliability and availability. Requires experience with Golang/Python/C++, distributed systems, and Linux networking stack (TC, iptables, eBPF). | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead - Software Engineer- Metadata Storage Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and operating high-performance metadata storage services, distributed coordination, and key-value storage solutions. The role involves building automated deployment solutions and providing metadata services to various business and infrastructure teams, including those in AI. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Services Site Reliability Engineer for ByteDance's hybrid Content Distribution Network (CDN) platform, focusing on ensuring stability, reliability, and performance of edge services. Responsibilities include architecting solutions, building automation and monitoring tools, developing operational procedures, and managing large-scale systems including datacenters and global CDNs. | — | 0 |
| Tech Lead Software Engineer, Programming Language Tech Lead Software Engineer to build development infrastructure including Cloud IDE, Intelligent Unit Test Generation, code and build systems, CI/CD software, and Micro service management and monitoring for a team serving over 20,000 developers daily. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer- Metadata Storage Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and operating ultra-performance metadata services, including distributed coordination, locking, key-value storage, and service discovery. The role also involves developing deployment solutions and providing metadata solutions for various business areas, including AI. Requires strong C/C++ skills and deep understanding of consensus protocols like Raft and Paxos, with experience in large-scale distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Security Engineering - San Jose ByteDance is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for their Security Engineering team in San Jose. This role focuses on building and maintaining scalable, secure-by-design systems and platforms for the company's security infrastructure. The SRE will be responsible for designing and implementing the security SRE framework, driving automation and intelligence in SRE infrastructure, monitoring system health, and supporting cross-functional teams. The role also involves team leadership, coaching, and driving technical decisions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in large-scale distributed SRE platforms, programming skills (Go/Java/Python/Shell), experience with cloud-native frameworks (Kubernetes), and familiarity with SRE tools like Ansible, ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Network Security - San Jose Software Engineer role focused on building and supporting enterprise-level network security products and solutions, including DDoS Defense, Web Application Security, and Bot Management. Requires strong experience in Linux networking development (C/Golang), TCP/IP stack, and ideally eBPF, with a background in network security concepts. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Partnerships Manager - Global Payment Seeking an accomplished Strategic Partnership Manager to manage the global payment partnership network, focusing on North America. The role involves exploring, formalizing, and optimizing payment partnerships with card networks, fintechs, and banks, requiring a deep understanding of the payment industry and strategic planning. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer, Network Automation Software Development Engineer focused on network automation and building platform products for data center network management. This role involves designing and developing software solutions to enhance network delivery efficiency and stability, covering planning, deployment, change, verification, and analytics. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer, Network Automation Software Development Engineer focused on network automation for hyperscale data centers, involving design, development, and operation of intelligent network infrastructure. Responsibilities include building platform products and tooling for network planning, deployment, change, verification, and analytics. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Network Security Senior Software Engineer for Network Security team at ByteDance, focusing on designing and building enterprise-level network security products like Firewalls, Anti-DDoS, WAF, and NDR. The role involves supporting ByteDance businesses with customized security solutions to meet compliance and security requirements, and supporting network security products for internal and external customers. Requires 5 years of software development experience in cybersecurity, strong understanding of networking protocols, DPDK or eBPF, and proficiency in C, GO, and Linux systems. | — | 0 |
| Researcher - Interdisciplinary - New York Researcher focused on interdisciplinary studies, economic and philosophical research, global history, and international affairs to track macro trends and develop insights for the company. Responsibilities include providing analysis through desk research, building academic relationships, and drafting reports for senior leaders. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure (San Jose) Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of core data services in a massive, distributed environment. Responsibilities include incident response, SLO management, capacity optimization, automation, and AI infrastructure maintenance. This role is primarily focused on operational work and platform resilience, not feature development. | — | 0 |
| System Performance Engineer - Server Platform The Server platform team is responsible for architecting, designing, and building server and storage systems for high-performance, low cost, and easy operation. This role focuses on optimizing server system benchmarks, collaborating with hardware engineers and vendors on performance targets, and working with application teams to profile and optimize performance for various workloads including AI computing. The role also involves evaluating new architectural designs, assessing cloud services and hardware, and contributing to industry standards. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Video Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer for ByteDance's Video Cloud Infra team, focusing on building and managing global infrastructure for multimedia transport, storage, and processing. Responsibilities include system reliability, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and automation to optimize performance and reduce costs for a platform serving billions of users. | — | 0 |
| Cloud Site Reliability Engineer - DCS Cloud Seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate hyper-scale datacenters, manage server fleet lifecycle, provide cloud solutions, and develop scalable and reliable infrastructure services. Responsibilities include designing, building, scaling, and operating global infrastructure, developing automation tools, creating and managing cloud AMIs, engaging in technical operations and on-call rotations, and driving improvements across the infrastructure lifecycle. Requires a Bachelor's degree, 2+ years of experience in Linux operations/SRE/DevOps, proficiency in Go/Python/C++, strong CS fundamentals, and familiarity with reliability practices. | — | 0 |
| Backend Software Engineer- Network Security - San Jose Backend Software Engineer focused on network security products and solutions, optimizing data pipelines and backend services. | — | 0 |
| System Architect - Cloud Hardware Architecting and designing server and storage systems for high-performance, low-cost, and easy operation, with exposure to AI application systems and emerging computing, storage, and silicon validation technologies. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer - Network Security, Anti-DDoS This role focuses on building and improving enterprise-level network security products and solutions, specifically for protecting online businesses from cyber attacks like DDoS. Responsibilities include partnering with business units, responding to security incidents, researching network threats, and working with development teams to implement new requirements. Requires a BS or advanced degree in CS or EE with at least 3 years of network security product operation experience, and familiarity with network protocols and web application/DDoS attack mitigation techniques. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Global Payment Compliance, Sanction Software Engineer for ByteDance's Global Payments team, focusing on backend development for payment risk and compliance. The role involves building cross-border payment solutions for ByteDance products, protecting users and merchants, and collaborating with global engineering and product teams. Responsibilities include participating in backend development, defining product deliverables, and driving technical initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Database Acceleration Senior Software Engineer role focused on building, optimizing, and scaling large data platforms and OLAP engines. Responsibilities include designing and implementing big data systems, optimizing open-source data frameworks, and architecting data warehouses and data lakes to support business units. Requires experience with Big Data technologies and pipelines. | — | 0 |
| Backend Software Engineer - Authorization Backend Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining the central and unified authorization service at ByteDance. Responsibilities include designing and implementing backend services, ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, and enforcing fine-grained access control. Requires strong coding skills in Golang, Java, or Python, with preferred experience in large-scale distributed systems and authorization services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Backend and Infrastructure This role focuses on building development infrastructure and intelligent data platforms to streamline software development processes. Responsibilities include developing Cloud IDE, code management systems, CI/CD, and monitoring systems, as well as researching and applying advanced computer engineering technologies to products. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team, responsible for building and managing cluster management systems, distributed resource scheduling frameworks, and solutions for resource utilization optimization. Focuses on scalable, distributed systems for development services. | — | 0 |
| Data Engineer, E-Commerce Data Engineer role focused on building, optimizing, and growing large data platforms for e-commerce, supporting core products and millions of users. Responsibilities include designing and building data transformations, implementing scalable big data systems, and establishing engineering best practices. | — | 0 |