PhD Intern: Seed LLM Post-Training & Agent RL Research

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 97.000 - 138.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

Housing allowance

Zusammenfassung

ByteDance's Seed team is seeking PhD interns to contribute to post-training research for unified multimodal large models. You will explore SFT, RM, RL, and self-learning, while optimizing reasoning and coding capabilities.

This internship blends hands-on learning with community-building, professional development, and collaboration with industry experts. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; clearly state your availability in your resume.

Qualifikationen

• Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, AI, or related field.
• Research experience in reinforcement learning, sequential decision-making, or agent behavior.
• First-author publications in accredited ML/AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML).
• Strong programming and experimentation skills, including with RL or LLM frameworks.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Aufgaben

• Explore large-scale models and optimize systems.
• Data construction, instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model optimization.
• Improving relevant model capabilities, such as reasoning, code, math etc.
• In-depth research and exploration of future use cases

Kenntnisse

Reinforcement learning

Sequential decision-making

Agent behavior

Publications (ML/AI conferences)

Programming & experimentation (RL/LLM)

Ausbildung

PhD in Computer Science, AI, or related field

Jobbeschreibung

ByteDance's Seed team is seeking PhD interns to contribute to post-training research for unified multimodal large models. You will explore SFT, RM, RL, and self-learning, while optimizing reasoning and coding capabilities.

This internship blends hands-on learning with community-building, professional development, and collaboration with industry experts. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; clearly state your availability in your resume.