Dev AI Software Engineer Graduate (Dev Infra US)
ByteDance
About the Role
Our team works to build development services that enable engineers to deliver high-quality features and systems to our users, aiming to provide systems that streamline and enhance software development productivity. The systems we are building include Cloud IDE, Intelligent Unit Test Generation, code and build systems, CI/CD software, and Micro service management and monitoring. 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. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver internal AI-powered developer tools, including agentic workflows, coding agents, IDE integrations, and command-line experiences, to improve engineering productivity across the software development lifecycle.
- Improve AI system performance through prompt, context, and harness engineering.
- Develop data pipelines, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks to measure code correctness, task completion, latency, reliability, safety, and developer productivity.
- Explore and apply advances in large language models, code intelligence, program analysis, and autonomous software engineering.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages: Python, Go, Java, C++, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks, and fundamental system design principles.
- Familiarity with machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, or large language models.
- Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional engineering environment.
- Passion for developer tools, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and improving software engineering productivity.
Qualifications
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related discipline.
- For Pay Transparency: The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128,000 - $316,800 annually.
- 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).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building AI-powered developer tools, including agentic workflows, coding agents, IDE extensions, or command-line tools.
- Experience with large language models, prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, context/harness engineering, MCP, agent skills.
- Publications, open-source contributions, technical blogs, hackathon projects, or a strong portfolio related to AI or developer tooling.