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Software Engineer in USA

ByteDance
Full time
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USA
09/08/2026
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Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

Architect and implement AI-native databases integrating structured, unstructured, and vectorized data.
Design storage engines for embedding ingestion, multimodal retrieval, and real-time AI interaction.
Build scalable distributed vector search systems with low-latency guarantees.
Develop AI-augmented query processors using LLMs for semantic parsing, intent understanding, and cost estimation.
Develop RAG infrastructure and LLM agent memory backends.
Drive innovations in learned indexes, self-optimizing databases, and AI-integrated transaction systems.
Publish research and contribute to open-source communities.
Collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams to translate ideas into production systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field with strong systems or AI research experience.
At least 2 years of experience in core database systems, large-scale distributed infrastructure, or machine learning systems.
Strong coding and system-level design skills in C++, Rust, or Go.
Deep expertise in storage engine architecture, vector retrieval and similarity search, AI or model-serving infrastructure, semantic search, agent systems, or AI-native memory frameworks.
Ability to collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams.
Preferred experience with Faiss, Milvus, DuckDB, ClickHouse, TiKV, or RocksDB.
Preferred publications at conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, NeurIPS, MLSys, or ICDE.
Preferred familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure database and AI integration strategies.
Preferred contributions to RAG, memory-augmented models, or self-tuning database components.

ByteDance

ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok. Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This...

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