Tech Lead Research Scientist, Physical AI Infra
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We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The posting includes some legal bits: "Reasonable Accommodation" is not boilerplate? It's a statement about accommodation; we can keep as it's substantive. The "Diversity & Inclusion" also maybe boilerplate but it's specific content; we keep. The "For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:" part is specific legal info; we might keep as part of Responsibilities? Actually it's a legal disclaimer; might be considered boilerplate but it's specific to location. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. That seems to refer to generic legal statements. The Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance is a legal statement; might be considered boilerplate. Safer to remove it? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove that legal bit. Also "Reasonable Accommodation" might be considered legal but it's about accommodation request; could be considered boilerplate but it's specific to process. Might keep? It's a statement about providing accommodations; could be considered boilerplate but it's part of the posting. I'd keep it as it's substantive about accommodation process.
We also need to include Pay section with the salary range. Benefits section with list.
We need to not include headings with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
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Responsibilities: The paragraph before bullet list: "The Infra-Compute division builds large-scale, highly available cloud and AI infrastructure that powers our public cloud offerings and internal products. Our US team develops technologies across AI training, inference, and agent infrastructure. We are expanding this work into Physical AI: intelligent systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. The team focuses on infrastructure for Physical AI, including data and simulation platforms, distributed training and inference, and deployment on heterogeneous hardware. We collaborate closely with customers, researchers, open-source communities, and hardware partners to turn emerging research into reliable, scalable systems."
Then bullet list:
- Track advances in academia, industry, and open-source communities; contribute technical insights, software, and, where appropriate, publications.
- Own the technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for major Physical AI infrastructure areas, translating ambiguous research, product, and customer requirements into clear architecture and execution plans.
- Lead architecture and delivery across multiple engineers and partner teams, define system boundaries and interfaces, resolve cross-stack trade-offs, and remain accountable for end-to-end technical outcomes.
- Define interfaces across the Physical AI lifecycle—including data pipelines, simulation, model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment—while directly owning one or more major platform components.
- Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications bullet list:
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of software engineering, machine learning systems, robotics, or related industry experience.
- 3+ years of experience as a tech lead.
- Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas, with working knowledge across one or more of the others: Robotic learning, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, world models, or policy evaluation; AI training and inference infrastructure, including distributed training, inference engines, GPU kernels, or collective communication; Robotics data and simulation systems, including multimodal dataset verification, synthetic data generation, simulation, data curation, or sim-to-real workflows.
- Experience taking technically complex systems from prototype through validation and production deployment.
- Strong communication skills, self-motivation, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to work effectively across research and engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications bullet list:
- Contributions to relevant open-source projects such as Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Cosmos, vLLM-Omni, SGLang Omni, RLInf, etc.
- Experience building large-scale AI or robotics platforms used by multiple teams or external customers, or experience with real-world robot systems and operational challenges.
- Publications at leading machine learning, systems, or robotics conferences.
About Us: paragraph: "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: paragraphs: "Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us."
Diversity & Inclusion: paragraphs: "ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too."
Reasonable Accommodation: paragraph: "ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request"
Pay: paragraph: "The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $241680 - $456000 annually. 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: paragraph: "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."
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Responsibilities
The Infra-Compute division builds large-scale, highly available cloud and AI infrastructure that powers our public cloud offerings and internal products. Our US team develops technologies across AI training, inference, and agent infrastructure. We are expanding this work into Physical AI: intelligent systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. The team focuses on infrastructure for Physical AI, including data and simulation platforms, distributed training and inference, and deployment on heterogeneous hardware. We collaborate closely with customers, researchers, open-source communities, and hardware partners to turn emerging research into reliable, scalable systems.
- Track advances in academia, industry, and open-source communities; contribute technical insights, software, and, where appropriate, publications.
- Own the technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for major Physical AI infrastructure areas, translating ambiguous research, product, and customer requirements into clear architecture and execution plans.
- Lead architecture and delivery across multiple engineers and partner teams, define system boundaries and interfaces, resolve cross-stack trade-offs, and remain accountable for end-to-end technical outcomes.
- Define interfaces across the Physical AI lifecycle—including data pipelines, simulation, model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment—while directly owning one or more major platform components.
- Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The posting includes some legal bits: "Reasonable Accommodation" is not boilerplate? It's a statement about accommodation; we can keep as it's substantive. The "Diversity & Inclusion" also maybe boilerplate but it's specific content; we keep. The "For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:" part is specific legal info; we might keep as part of Responsibilities? Actually it's a legal disclaimer; might be considered boilerplate but it's specific to location. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. That seems to refer to generic legal statements. The Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance is a legal statement; might be considered boilerplate. Safer to remove it? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove that legal bit. Also "Reasonable Accommodation" might be considered legal but it's about accommodation request; could be considered boilerplate but it's specific to process. Might keep? It's a statement about providing accommodations; could be considered boilerplate but it's part of the posting. I'd keep it as it's substantive about accommodation process. We also need to include Pay section with the salary range. Benefits section with list. We need to not include headings with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content: Responsibilities: The paragraph before bullet list: "The Infra-Compute division builds large-scale, highly available cloud and AI infrastructure that powers our public cloud offerings and internal products. Our US team develops technologies across AI training, inference, and agent infrastructure. We are expanding this work into Physical AI: intelligent systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. The team focuses on infrastructure for Physical AI, including data and simulation platforms, distributed training and inference, and deployment on heterogeneous hardware. We collaborate closely with customers, researchers, open-source communities, and hardware partners to turn emerging research into reliable, scalable systems." Then bullet list: - Track advances in academia, industry, and open-source communities; contribute technical insights, software, and, where appropriate, publications. - Own the technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for major Physical AI infrastructure areas, translating ambiguous research, product, and customer requirements into clear architecture and execution plans. - Lead architecture and delivery across multiple engineers and partner teams, define system boundaries and interfaces, resolve cross-stack trade-offs, and remain accountable for end-to-end technical outcomes. - Define interfaces across the Physical AI lifecycle—including data pipelines, simulation, model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment—while directly owning one or more major platform components. - Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, and raise the engineering bar across the team. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications bullet list: - Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of software engineering, machine learning systems, robotics, or related industry experience. - 3+ years of experience as a tech lead. - Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas, with working knowledge across one or more of the others: Robotic learning, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, world models, or policy evaluation; AI training and inference infrastructure, including distributed training, inference engines, GPU kernels, or collective communication; Robotics data and simulation systems, including multimodal dataset verification, synthetic data generation, simulation, data curation, or sim-to-real workflows. - Experience taking technically complex systems from prototype through validation and production deployment. - Strong communication skills, self-motivation, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to work effectively across research and engineering teams. Preferred Qualifications bullet list: - Contributions to relevant open-source projects such as Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Cosmos, vLLM-Omni, SGLang Omni, RLInf, etc. - Experience building large-scale AI or robotics platforms used by multiple teams or external customers, or experience with real-world robot systems and operational challenges. - Publications at leading machine learning, systems, or robotics conferences. About Us: paragraph: "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: paragraphs: "Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us." Diversity & Inclusion: paragraphs: "ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too." Reasonable Accommodation: paragraph: "ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request" Pay: paragraph: "The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $241680 - $456000 annually. 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: paragraph: "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." We should format Benefits as a list? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should turn benefits into list items. The benefits paragraph includes multiple items separated by commas. We can split into list items: medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) savings plan with company match; paid parental leave; short-term and long-term disability coverage; life insurance; wellbeing benefits; 10 paid holidays per year; 10 paid sick days per year; 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). Also note "Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location." and "The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice." Those are prose, not list items. So we can have a
for those sentences, then
- for the list.
Similarly for Responsibilities we have intro paragraph then list.
Qualifications: we have intro? Actually there is a heading "Minimum Qualifications" then list. We could treat the heading as part of section? But we only use
for section headings like "Qualifications". Under that we can have
maybe intro? There's no intro prose besides the list. So we can just have
- for each item under Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Might need to separate Minimum and Preferred? Could combine under Qualifications section with two subheadings? But we only allowed
for section headings; we could use
? Not allowed. So we could just list all qualifications together, but we need to preserve distinction? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. If we combine Minimum and Preferred into one list, we lose the distinction. Better to keep two sub-sections using
? Not allowed. Could we use
to label "Minimum Qualifications:" then list? That would preserve info. Use
Minimum Qualifications:
then- . Similarly for Preferred. That's acceptable as not a heading.
Similarly for Responsibilities we have intro paragraph then list.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
- Track advances in academia, industry, and open-source communities; contribute technical insights, software, and, where appropriate, publications.
- Own the technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for major Physical AI infrastructure areas, translating ambiguous research, product, and customer requirements into clear architecture and execution plans.
- Lead architecture and delivery across multiple engineers and partner teams, define system boundaries and interfaces, resolve cross-stack trade-offs, and remain accountable for end-to-end technical outcomes.
- Define interfaces across the Physical AI lifecycle—including data pipelines, simulation, model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment—while directly owning one or more major platform components.
- Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
Responsibilities
The Infra-Compute division builds large-scale, highly available cloud and AI infrastructure that powers our public cloud offerings and internal products. Our US team develops technologies across AI training, inference, and agent infrastructure. We are expanding this work into Physical AI: intelligent systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. The team focuses on infrastructure for Physical AI, including data and simulation platforms, distributed training and inference, and deployment on heterogeneous hardware. We collaborate closely with customers, researchers, open-source communities, and hardware partners to turn emerging research into reliable, scalable systems.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- for each item under Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Might need to separate Minimum and Preferred? Could combine under Qualifications section with two subheadings? But we only allowed
- for the list.
Similarly for Responsibilities we have intro paragraph then list.
Qualifications: we have intro? Actually there is a heading "Minimum Qualifications" then list. We could treat the heading as part of section? But we only use