PhD Video/Imaging AI Engineer Intern (Research)

ByteDance; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Housing allowance

Paid holidays

Paid sick time

Job summary

ByteDance in San Diego is seeking PhD internship candidates to contribute to industry‑leading video codec hardware and software. You will design algorithms, C-models, and firmware for advanced video encoding and processing on FPGA/ASIC accelerators.

The role involves prototyping and evaluating video quality metrics, building datasets, and collaborating with research and engineering teams to translate research into production pipelines.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in a technical field.
• Strong programming, debugging, and optimization in C/C++ and/or Python.
• Solid understanding of image/video analysis or quality assessment methods.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on video analysis algorithms (ROI, content understanding, feature extraction).
• Develop image/video quality evaluation methods (objective and learning-based).
• Build datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation pipelines for multimedia quality.
• Explore video quality optimization across analysis, enhancement, processing, and encoding.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Image/video analysis

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Experiment independently

Communication

Education

PhD student in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics

Tools

None

Job description

ByteDance in San Diego is seeking PhD internship candidates to contribute to industry‑leading video codec hardware and software. You will design algorithms, C-models, and firmware for advanced video encoding and processing on FPGA/ASIC accelerators.

The role involves prototyping and evaluating video quality metrics, building datasets, and collaborating with research and engineering teams to translate research into production pipelines.