Senior Platform Architect - Enterprise AI Agent

Responsibilities

• Possess an in-depth understanding of the history and industry trends in Server Operations and Data Center operations platform development from production point of view.

Be familiar with Volcano (Volcengine) and edge server / Data Center requirements and their differences globally.

Acquire knowledge of both domestic and non-domestic GPU hardware architectures, firmware baselines, and performance stress testing.

Master high-power-density and high-compute-density rack-level solutions, including cold-plate liquid cooling integrated with air cooling, Power Shelf, Side Car, and RDMA copper / optical interconnects such as NVLINK or HCCS.

Leverage the AI Factory approach to address challenges at the AI infrastructure layer.

• Define the technical architecture and roadmap for enterprise AI agent platforms, including AI harness, agent orchestration, tool integration, workflow automation, memory, evaluation, observability, and governance capabilities.
• Partner with product, engineering, data, security, and business teams to identify high-value AI use cases and guide them from concept to production.
• Establish architecture principles, design patterns, best practices, and governance standards for enterprise AI agent and RAG-based application development.
• Provide technical leadership on AI reliability, scalability, observability, cost optimization, privacy, security, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
• Apply product management thinking to define platform vision, user journeys, feature priorities, adoption metrics, rollout plans, and feedback loops.
• Influence stakeholders across business and technology teams to align AI platform capabilities with enterprise strategy.
• Mentor engineers and platform teams through architecture reviews, technical deep dives, prototypes, and implementation guidance.
• Minimum Qualifications
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working with two or more of the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, networking systems, developing large software systems.
• 5+ years software development experience preferably with Golang or Python.
• Experience driving enterprise AI adoption across multiple business units or internal product teams.
• Prior experience combining architect-level technical ownership with product management responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of AI system tradeoffs, including cost, latency, accuracy, reliability, safety, and user experience.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience building or architecting enterprise AI agent platforms, AI harness platforms, RAG-based knowledge bases, model gateways, evaluation platforms, or internal AI developer platforms.
• Deep familiarity with modern LLM ecosystems, including agent frameworks, vector databases, embedding models, reranking models, model routing, evaluation tooling, and AI governance.
• Experience with enterprise knowledge management systems, document intelligence, semantic search, taxonomy design, or knowledge quality evaluation.
• Experience with security, compliance, data privacy, access control, auditability, and responsible AI practices in enterprise AI systems.
• Publications, patents, open-source contributions, or recognized technical leadership in AI, platform architecture, or enterprise software are a plus.
• Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212800 - $450000 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 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).

EEO Statement

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

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:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.
• Reasonable Accommodation

Byte Dance 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.

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