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).
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|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |