ML Engineer Intern – Multimodal AI & LLM Systems

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 20,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

ByteDance's Applied Machine Learning Ark team in Seattle offers an internship in the area of Large Language Models and AI Agent systems. You will contribute to full-stack MaaS solutions spanning text and multimodal LLMs, model evaluation, and data pipelines while gaining hands-on experience in cutting-edge AI research.

The role targets students pursuing a BS/MS in CS/AI/ML/CV with strong Python and PyTorch skills, and with demonstrated research or open-source activity.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, ML, CV or related field.
• Strong foundation in deep learning and computer vision, including generative modeling fundamentals.
• Practical experience in visual generation, multimodal LLMs, video understanding, or visual quality assessment.
• Strong Python skills and proficiency with PyTorch or equivalent framework.
• Demonstrated research or engineering ability via publications, projects, internships, or open-source work.
• Publications at top-tier vision or ML venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV).
• Hands-on experience with modern visual generation stacks including diffusion-based models.
• Familiarity with visual generation benchmarks or evaluation frameworks.
• Experience applying agent frameworks to creative workflows or large-scale video data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build evaluation systems for image and video models/agents, covering generation quality, instruction following, multimodal understanding, and safety.
• Develop automated metrics and model-based evaluators, and design reproducible human evaluation protocols.
• Design and develop video generation/debugging agents that orchestrate multi-step creative workflows.
• Build large-scale image and video data pipelines, and turn evaluation findings into model and product improvements.

Skills

Deep learning

Computer vision

Multimodal evaluation

Python

Research experience

Publications

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/ML/CV

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

ByteDance's Applied Machine Learning Ark team in Seattle offers an internship in the area of Large Language Models and AI Agent systems. You will contribute to full-stack MaaS solutions spanning text and multimodal LLMs, model evaluation, and data pipelines while gaining hands-on experience in cutting-edge AI research.

The role targets students pursuing a BS/MS in CS/AI/ML/CV with strong Python and PyTorch skills, and with demonstrated research or open-source activity.