LLM Backend Engineer Graduate (Applied Machine Learning) - 2027 Start

• Design and develop core components of the Volcano Ark MaaS platform, supporting API capabilities for text dialogue, multimodal understanding, and multimodal generation.
• Participate in cloud-native architecture evolution, including Service Mesh, load balancing, and intelligent routing; design and implement high-availability solutions such as end-to-end grayscale release, traffic degradation, circuit breaking, and rate limiting.
• Perform system-level performance tuning for long connections, high throughput, streaming output, and low latency in multimodal large model inference scenarios.
• Ensure system stability for large-scale model invocation scenarios and resolve architectural bottlenecks caused by sudden traffic spikes.

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Proficient in at least one programming language such as Golang, Java, C++, or Python; has practical software development experience and solid computer science fundamentals.
• Understands basic backend engineering systems, including databases, computer networks, operating systems, and distributed system principles., * Hands-on experience in server-side engineering.
• Understanding of Agent concepts and related technical implementations, such as Function Calling and MCP.
• Familiarity with cloud-native and service mesh technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, and Envoy.
• Interest in large model inference pipelines, with relevant background knowledge., Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment

Pulled from the full job description Paid parental leave Parental leave Health insurance 401(k) matching Vision insurance Dental insurance Paid sick time, Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

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).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Volcano Ark is an all-in-one large model service platform launched by Volcano Engine. It is a leading platform in China’s large model market by product capability and market share. The platform provides end-to-end services including model inference, evaluation, fine-tuning, AI application development, and a plugin ecosystem. Volcano Ark hosts Doubao and leading industry large models, and supports enterprise AI adoption through secure and trusted solutions as well as professional algorithm and technical services.

Data AML is ByteDance’s machine learning platform team. It provides training and inference systems for recommendation, advertising, computer vision, speech, and NLP scenarios across products such as Douyin, Toutiao, and Xigua Video. The team also supports internal business teams with large-scale machine learning compute, explores general and innovative algorithms for business problems, and offers core machine learning and recommendation system capabilities to external enterprise customers through Volcano Engine.

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.