Research Scientist, Generative AI Graduate (Intelligent Creation) -Global Frontier Tech Recruit[...]

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 244,800 - 588,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

10 paid holidays and 10 sick days

17 days of Paid Personal Time

Job summary

ByteDance is looking for talented individuals in San Jose to join the Intelligent Creation - Global GenAI team. As a researcher, you will work on generative AI projects, focusing on applied research and innovative solutions for TikTok.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in a related field and will conduct research in computer vision and machine learning. The position offers a competitive salary range of $244,800 to $588,000 annually and several benefits including medical insurance and paid personal time.

Qualifications

• Completing or recently completed PhD.
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting‑edge research in generative AI.
• Transfer advanced technologies to TikTok and other products.
• Explore new products with AI technology.

Skills

Collaboration and interpersonal skills

Strong coding skills in Python

Strong coding skills in C++

Education

PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Overview

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2027. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company.

About the Team

The Intelligent Creation - Global GenAI team focuses on applied research in Generative AI, and delivers intelligent solutions to Tiktok, enabling users to make and share creative content in a much easier way. The team has research groups dedicated to multimodal foundation models for content creation, image/video generation and editing, efficient modeling, and world models.

Topic Content

As AGI large model technology advances, the way AI creates multimodal images, text, and videos is changing deeply. New creative solutions based on generative AI and agent technologies keep appearing. Multimodal creation large models use cutting‑edge methods like full‑modal content understanding, AIGC image and video generation, and agentic foundation models to build flexible, efficient, and industry‑leading ways to create multimedia content. Through continual training and post‑training, these models steadily raise their abilities in content understanding and image/video generation, optimizing the foundational models end to end for creation agent scenarios.

Challenges

• Deeply involving in post‑training (SFT/RL) of Seed multimodal models and LLM.
• Participating in unified modeling for image and video generation, driving model performance improvements, and gaining hands‑on experience in model iteration and large‑scale training.
• Applying agent technology and architecture, optimizing tool‑calling and long‑horizon task capabilities of agentic foundation models, and conducting in‑depth research on agentic RL.

Research Value

This topic focuses on the multimodal creation transformation in the AGI era, relying on full‑modal understanding, AIGC generation, and agentic foundation models to build an efficient and intelligent multimedia creation system. Through ongoing training and model optimisation, it constantly pushes forward content generation and understanding abilities, moving AI creation from reactive generation toward autonomous intelligence. This topic combines cutting‑edge technology with practical industry value, providing core support for the next generation of intelligent creation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting‑edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning, especially in the areas of generative AI (e.g. image, video, or 3D generation).
• Transfer advanced technologies to TikTok and other products.
• Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2027. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming; strong coding skills in Python/C++.

Preferred Qualifications

• Multimodal generation, such as text‑to‑image/video/3D generation and editing, and other related multimodal experiences.
• Image generation, video generation, 3D generation.
• Diffusion model, GAN, transformer for generation tasks.
• Large‑scale training, RLHF, and generative AI.
• Preferring candidates with publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia, etc.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $244,800 – $588,000 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity (Los Angeles County)

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues.
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems.
• Exercising sound judgment.

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.