Research Intern (Frontier AI Systems) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Location

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San Jose

Team

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Technology

Employment Type

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Intern

Job Code

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A129804

Responsibilities

About the Team

We are a lean architect & research team responsible for defining the next generation of AI infrastructure at Bytedance. AI is a fast-evolving horizon — pretraining, RL, and agentic workloads each reshape the requirements faster than traditional cloud abstractions can absorb — and our team is built to keep pace rather than simply react. We approach the problem as an end-to-end AI factory: a tightly coupled production system spanning data, applications, software infrastructure, chips, energy, and the broader supply chain. In this role, you will work at the intersection of large-scale systems, AI, emerging hardware, and the cognitive foundations of intelligent agents — including next-generation AI memory systems informed by cognitive science and psychology — designing scalable architectures and driving innovations across the full AI factory stack.

This internship is intended for PhD students who want to work on technically deep, open-ended problems with real systems relevance. We value people who are self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, able to move between abstraction and implementation, and excited to turn ideas into working systems, measurements, and technical direction.

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.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume