Research Intern; AI Compute Efficiency & Scheduling PhD

Research Intern (AI Compute Efficiency & Scheduling) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Location:

Seattle

Team:

Technology

Employment Type:

Intern

Job Code:

A176099A

We decide how Byte Dance's massive fleet of computers gets used — turning hundreds of clusters and millions of daily workloads (microservices, big data, and large AI/LLM jobs) into a system that's highly efficient, reliable, and increasingly self-managing, powered by our own intelligent scheduling platform Godel (open-sourced to the community). Our mission: get the most value out of every unit of computing power, at a scale few places in the world can offer, and let AI increasingly help run the infrastructure.

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.

• Help make our intelligent, AI‑driven scheduler smarter at placing and balancing workloads.
• Explore new ways to get more useful work out of the same hardware — smarter use of compute, memory, or power.
• Build tools that help a global platform run reliably and increasingly manage itself, including AI‑agent‑assisted automation.

The AI era runs on compute — and using it efficiently is one of the defining challenges for our company and the whole industry. Our team owns that challenge at Byte Dance's global scale, making the infrastructure behind Tik Tok and our AI/LLM products faster, smarter, and far more efficient. As an intern, you'll get a real project at the center of it.

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Able to commit to a 12‑week internship during Summer 2027.
• Experience coding in Go, C++, Python, Java, or C#.

• Intent to return to your degree program after the internship.
• Strong fundamentals in systems, distributed computing, or software engineering — shown through internships, work, research, competitions, or projects.
• Curiosity about large‑scale or AI/ML infrastructure; exposure to Linux, containers, or Kubernetes is a plus but not required.
• High creativity and quick problem‑solving.

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $57- $57.

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.

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 of employment: