[Remote] Research Intern (AI/LLM Network) - 2026 Start (PhD)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ByteDance is a leading technology company known for its innovative applications like TikTok and Douyin. They are seeking a Research Intern to contribute to their AI/LLM networking solutions, focusing on high-speed network technologies and large-scale system monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation and deployment of high-speed network technologies to support AI/LLM applications
• Design and development of platforms/systems for monitoring, analysis and diagnosis of large scale AI/LLM network
• Research and development of high-performance AI communication framework, network protocol stacks, and codesign optimization of host-network-application to improve the scalability, reliability and performance of AI/LLM network
• Follow the latest technologies from academia and industry, identify the innovative parts of the system and present in academic papers

Skills

• Currently pursuing a PhD in computer networking or a related technical discipline
• Experience with at least one of the following areas:
• Proficiency in computer network and network programming
• Proficiency in one or several mainstream programming languages, including C/C++, Python, Go and so on
• Be familiar with the latest advances in the area of high-speed network systems, including RDMA, congestion control, AI network optimization and so on
• Experience in developing high performance communication frameworks (including NCCL, MPI and RPC libraries) is a plus
• Experience in developing software systems for AI network diagnosis and performance optimization
• Be familiar with AI training/inference systems and software-hardware co-design
• Having top tier networking conference publications such as NSDI, SIGCOMM, OSDI, SOSP etc

Benefits

• Interns have day one access to health insurance
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
• Housing allowance

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