Software Engineer - Inference (Singapore)

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

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Diversity & Inclusion

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Job highlights

Positive team atmosphere, Career growth opportunity, Flat organization

Responsibilities

About Us

The Machine Learning (ML) System sub-team combines system engineering and the art of machine learning to develop and maintain massively distributed ML training and Inference system/services around the world, providing high-performance, highly reliable, scalable systems for LLM/AIGC/AGI

In our team, you'll have the opportunity to build the large scale heterogeneous system integrating with GPU/NPU/RDMA/Storage and keep it running reliable, enrich your expertise in coding, performance analysis and distributed system, and be involved in the decision-making process. You'll also be part of a global team with members from the United States, China and Singapore working collaboratively towards unified project direction.

Responsibilities

- Responsible for developing and optimizing LLM inference framework.

- Responsible for GPU and CUDA Performance optimization to create an industry-leading high-performance LLM inference engine.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or above, major in computer/electronics/automation/software, etc.

- Proficient in C/C++, proficient in algorithms and data structures, familiar with Python

- Understand the basic principles of deep learning algorithms, be familiar with the basic architecture of neural networks and understand deep learning training frameworks such as Pytorch.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Proficient in GPU high-performance computing optimization technology on CUDA, in-depth understanding of computer architecture, familiar with parallel computing optimization, memory access optimization, low-bit computing, etc.

- Familiar with TensorRT-LLM, ORCA, VLLM, etc.

- Knowledge of LLM models, experience in accelerating LLM model optimization is preferred.