[Remote] Research Intern (RDMA/High Speed 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 products like TikTok. The Research Intern will contribute to high-performance networking solutions, focusing on AI/LLM applications and enhancing the scalability and reliability of network protocols.

Responsibilities

• Design, optimization, implementation and deployment of high-performance transport protocols to support AI/LLM applications
• Design, optimization, implementation and deployment of congestion control algorithms to support AI/LLM applications
• Research and development of high-performance AI communication framework, network protocol stacks, and co-design optimization of host-network-application to improve the scalability, reliability and performance of AI/LLM networks
• 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:
• Be familiar with network protocols like TCP and RoCEv2, have experience in network programming based on Socket and verbs APIs
• Be familiar with Data Center congestion control algorithms, understand their pros and cons
• Knowledge of scale-up protocols like PCIe, NVLink, UALink, and their differences with scale-out network protocols
• Be familiar with the latest advances in the area of high-speed network systems, including RDMA, congestion control, AI network optimization and so on
• Proficiency in one or several mainstream programming languages, including C/C++, Python, Go and so on
• Have some knowledge of GPU architecture
• Experience in developing high performance communication frameworks (including NCCL, MPI and RPC libraries) is a plus
• 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 and more
• Interns also receive 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)
• Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

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