What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Scientist Graduate (Multi-modal Agentic Databases) - 2027 Start (PhD) position at ByteDance?
Responsibilities
About the 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, Focusing On:
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2027. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume
Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $316800 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. 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:
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
About the 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, Focusing On:
- Multi-modal query processing: Support seamlessly integrated multi-modal query processing, including vector, full-text and regular SQL query processing over various typed data. In addition, how to support large scale semantic operators in a cost-effective and low-latency way is also our research focus.
- Explore infrastructure auto-optimization based on AI Agent workflows. Build a self-evolving business Agent framework, enabling full-stack intelligent optimization through “AI for Infrastructure”. We look into various ways to apply AI/LLM in solving infrastructure problems, such as NL-to-SQL, Auto Skills etc. This project aims to build next-generation AI-native infrastructure to support LLMs and AI Agents, improving resource utilization, reducing costs, enabling elastic scalability, and driving the evolution of AI infrastructure technologies.
- 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, EuroSys 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.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2027. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume
Responsibilities:
- Do research surveys and come up with a new system and algorithm design.
- Develop new systems and successfully land them into production environments
- Be able to debug systems and measure system performance.
- Collaborate with mentors and other lab members.
- Write technical reports and publish papers.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Skilled in at least one mainstream programming language (e.g., C/C , Python, Go), with strong coding ability, data structures, and algorithm fundamentals.
- Be able to independently design and develop complex systems
- Deliver design documents, independent deliverables, and demo systems
- Be familiar with state-of-the-art data management technologies
- Strong learning ability and self-motivation. Good teamwork and communication skills.
- Excellent problem analysis and solving abilities.
- Capable of independently exploring solutions. Strong mental resilience and adaptability when facing challenges.
- Have research experience in LLMs and infrastructure is highly preferred
- Have published at least two papers as first authors in conferences or journals such as SIGMOD, VLDB, NSDI/OSDI, EuroSys etc.
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $316800 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. 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:
- Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
- Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
- Exercising sound judgment.
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Salary : $162,000 - $316,800