Senior Software Engineer - XR Spatial Machine Learning

ByteDance

ByteDance

Software Engineering
San Jose, CA, USA
USD 136,800-359,720 / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 30, 2025
Senior Software Engineer - XR Spatial Machine Learning
San Jose Regular R&D Job ID: A31770
Responsibilities
About the Team The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR) technologies has birthed an exciting new era of immersive computing. Our team is well placed within a company that has focused on practical applications of AI, and a division that has a mandate to deliver innovative XR solutions. Our team's goals are centered around integrating AI and Machine Learning (ML) into XR headsets, with a primary focus on equipping developers with tools and resources to build groundbreaking applications. Our vision is to establish an ecosystem where developers can leverage the power of AI/ML within XR headsets to create experiences that redefine human digital interaction. By providing developers with comprehensive frameworks, tools, resources, and SDKs, we aim to enable the creation of applications that are intuitive, personalized, and context-aware, pushing the boundaries of what is achievable in immersive development. Responsibilities: - Work on frameworks to enable developers to leverage AI/ML features in customizing their XR experiences - Design and implement APIs to provide these frameworks to developers in an accessible way - Create tools, workflows and pipelines for easy data collection, training and deployment - Work with research teams to implement AI/ML models for XR SDK features - Collaborate with other teams that provide frameworks that would need to be integrated for AI/ML features to work - Profile and optimize our frameworks and tools based on analytics or user feedback
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical industry experience - Strong computer architecture/system knowledge and familiarity with commonly used data structure and algorithms - Strong C/C++ programming, problem solving and debugging skills - Experience with native Android development, including multithreading and shared memory - Good understanding of Vulkan / OpenGL and modern mobile graphics pipeline - Experience with low level performance profiling and optimization - Experience with ML frameworks such as TFLite, PyTorch or Tensorflow running on mobile Preferred Qualifications: - Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field - Experience with development of native Android Services and AIDL - Experience with LLM inference - Familiarity with Qualcomm QNN SDK, OpenCV and other ML and CV related frameworks - Experience with GPU performance profiling and tuning - Experience with XR development
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $359720 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).

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

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:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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

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

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

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

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