Graduate Research Scientist — Multimodal AI

Bytedance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 254,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance Seed is seeking researchers to advance multimodal AI, MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics, with a global presence across the US, China, and Singapore. The team has launched leading foundation models and multimodal capabilities powering over 50 applications, and serves enterprise customers through Volcano Engine and BytePlus.

As a graduate, you will tackle bold ideas, join a fast-growing group, and have opportunities to contribute to scalable research.

Qualifications

• PhD or near-completion in CS/EE/Physics/Math.
• Publications in leading AI/ML venues (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML).
• Strong research background in RL, multimodal learning, video understanding, or vision-language modeling.

Responsibilities

• Drive research and engineering to advance models for multimodal data understanding and reasoning.
• Explore ideas to optimize model performance and efficiency.
• Establish scaling laws and conduct systematic ablations with transferrable conclusions.

Skills

PhD completed

Publications in top venues

Reinforcement learning

Multimodal learning

Video understanding

Vision‑language modeling

Transformers

PyTorch

JAX

Distributed training

Education

PhD or near-completion in CS/EE/Physics/Math

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Distributed training frameworks

Job description

ByteDance Seed is seeking researchers to advance multimodal AI, MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics, with a global presence across the US, China, and Singapore. The team has launched leading foundation models and multimodal capabilities powering over 50 applications, and serves enterprise customers through Volcano Engine and BytePlus.

As a graduate, you will tackle bold ideas, join a fast-growing group, and have opportunities to contribute to scalable research.