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Tech Lead​/Principal Engineer, Creator Agent Algorithm Infrastructure

Job in Seattle, King County, Washington, 98127, USA
Listing for: ByteDance
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-15
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Machine Learning/ ML Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 241680 - 456000 USD Yearly USD 241680.00 456000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Responsibilities

The Arch-Global E-Commerce team develops large-scale recommendation, matching, and ranking algorithms for creator-commerce platforms, supports multiple teams such as Creator Marketplace, Creator Shop, and Tik Tok consumer experiences. We leverage machine learning and data-driven optimization to connect sellers, creators, and products more effectively, increase content-commerce supply, and accelerate e-commerce GMV growth.

You will own the overall algorithm infrastructure roadmap for Creator Agent. Work in close partnership with the algorithm team to ensure cutting-edge agent capabilities can be delivered to the creator business.

  • Lead the architectural development of core Agent algorithm capabilities, including but not limited to:
    • Agent orchestration framework:
      Build agent orchestration capabilities supporting complex business logic, based on Lang Graph or in-house frameworks.
    • Agentic Search:
      Build intelligent retrieval architecture tailored to creator scenarios, enabling the Agent to proactively and iteratively gather information from product, creator, and content corpora.
    • Hierarchical memory systems:
      Design short-term, long-term, and episodic memory mechanisms, providing the algorithm team with foundational capabilities for personalized creator understanding.
    • Algorithm tuning infrastructure:
      Provide efficient training, evaluation, and iteration infrastructure for Agent RL, Memory RL, SFT, and additional frontier optimization directions (see below).
  • Continuously track and bring frontier Agent optimization directions into the team, including but not limited to:
    • Test-time / inference-time optimization (self-refine, reflection, tree search, process reward model-guided reasoning, etc.)
    • Tool use optimization (tool-use SFT, tool-use trajectory RL, tool selection optimization)
    • Multi-agent collaboration and deliberation
    • Automated prompt / workflow optimization (e.g., DSPy, Text Grad - "gradient-style" optimization of prompts and workflows)
    • Agent distillation into smaller, more efficient models
    • Agent evaluation and reward modeling (LLM-as-Judge, PRMs, Agent benchmark design, etc.)
  • And, based on team and business realities, judge which directions are worth investing in and translate them into team capabilities.
  • Track the latest Agent architectures from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, and adapt them deeply to our creator business.
  • Partner deeply with the Algorithm team — understands the real needs of algorithm iteration, and ensures that algorithm infrastructure accelerates rather than bottlenecks algorithmic innovation.
  • Develop deep understanding of creators as a B2B user group; translate business insights into algorithm infrastructure decisions.
  • Qualifications

    Minimum Qualifications
  • Deep understanding of the Agent technical stack — familiarity with the architectural approaches of frontier Agent practices such as OpenAI SDK and Claude Code, and a clear point of view on the capability boundaries and algorithmic challenges of Agents.
  • Hands-on experience with Lang Graph (or equivalent frameworks) for building production-grade, domain-customised agents.
  • Systematic understanding of Agent optimisation — familiarity with the foundational directions (Agent RL, hierarchical memory and Memory RL, SFT), plus hands-on practice or deep familiarity with at least 2-3 frontier directions (e.g., test-time optimisation, tool-use optimisation, multi-agent collaboration, automated prompt/workflow optimisation, Agent distillation, Agent evaluation).
  • Familiarity with Agentic Search design and implementation, with a clear understanding of the paradigm shift from traditional retrieval to agent-driven retrieval.
  • Deep understanding of B2B / ToB businesses — able to reason about algorithm infrastructure from B2B-specific…
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