Research Scientist Intern – Multimodal AI Systems

Location:

San Jose

Team:

Technology

Employment Type:

Intern

Job Code:

A108489A

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Responsibilities

About Team:

With the fast growth of Bytedance's business, Bytedance's system infrastructure is currently at a massive scale and requires versatile system solutions. With the large-scale deployment of large language models (LLMs) and AI Agents, traditional cloud-native infrastructure can no longer meet the extreme performance and elasticity demands of AI workloads. Our team works on advanced R&D projects in building multi-modal agentic database infrastructure.

To name a few, our TextToSQL project ranks top on well known industry benchmarks. We are also developing advanced technologies in supporting real-time semantic analysis in real production scenarios.

Besides achieving great business impacts, we also encourage publishing on top tier conferences. In the past a few years, we have published dozens of papers in top tier conferences, such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICLR, Euro Sys etc. We hire students with great technical skills, willingness to learn and solve complex technical challenges and passion in making an impact on millions of users.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.

Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date).Responsibilities
- Do research survey and come up with a new system and algorithm design
- Develop prototyping systems
- Be able to debug systems and measure system performance
- Collaborate with mentors and other lab members
- Write technical reports and publish papers

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or related discipline.

- Understand how distributed systems work
- Great programming skill in one or more of the following programming languages: C/C++, Go, Java or Python
- Be able to conduct advanced research under supervision

Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong past research experience in database kernels
- Research experience with LLM and agentic data management
- Have published at least 1 paper as first authors in conferences or journals such as SIGMOD, VLDB, NSDI/OSDI, Euro Sys etc.

Job Information

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60- $60.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer…