Research Engineer Graduate; AI Infra Compute PhD

Research Engineer Graduate (AI Infra Compute) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Location:

Seattle

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A153930

About the team Compute division focuses on building large-scale and highly available cloud infrastructure, which supports both public cloud products (like Volc Engine ECS service) and the internal products. The Compute-US team focuses on the development and research of the compute infrastructure platform. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Responsibilities:

• Develop key technologies to optimize our AI Infra stack, including training infra, inference infra, and AI agents.
• Work with academia and open source communities on joint development.
• Follow the latest technologies from academia or industry and conduct deep-dive analysis.
• Present our research and products in academic papers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with at least one of the following areas:
• LLM training infra, including optimizations for various post-training workloads such as RL training, knowledge distillation, etc.
• LLM inference infra, including inference engine performance improvements, more efficient execution parallelism, GPU kernel optimizations, etc.
• AI Agent Infra, including computer-use agents, coding agents, agent memory, agent sandbox, etc.
• Commit to proactive continuous learning, demonstrate enthusiasm for AI technologies, and exhibit a strong ability to quickly grasp and apply new technologies.
• Good communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Frequent contributors or maintainers in AI Infra related open source communities such as vLLM or SGLang.
• Having CS conference publications such as OSDI or MLSys.

For Pay Transparency Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $153900 - $300960 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

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.

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