Research Scientist Graduate (Large Language Model (Doubao-Seed)) - 2025 Start (PhD)

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Research Scientist Graduate in Large Language Models starting in 2025. This role at ByteDance involves pioneering AI research across various disciplines including NLP and CV, with opportunities to innovate and influence industry-wide progress. Successful candidates will leverage their advanced programming skills in a dynamic team dedicated to technological advancement.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability coverage

Life insurance

10 paid holidays per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time

Qualifications

• Ph.D. graduate required with strong coding and algorithm skills.
• Familiarity with NLP and CV algorithms preferred.
• Experience in large-scale model training is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Explore large-scale models and optimize systems.
• Conduct research in NLP, CV, and application implementation.
• Align models for content generation and reasoning.

Skills

C/C++

Python

NLP

CV

Algorithms

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field

Job description

Research Scientist Graduate (Large Language Model (Doubao-Seed)) - 2025 Start (PhD)

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Base pay range

$145,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yr

Responsibilities

About The Team:

Founded in 2023, ByteDance Doubao Team is dedicated to crafting the industry's most advanced LLMs. We aim to lead global research and foster both technological and social progress.

With a long-term vision and a strong commitment to the AI field, the Team conducts research in a range of areas including natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), and speech recognition and generation. It boasts a robust international presence with labs and research facilities in China, Singapore, and the US. Leveraging substantial data and computing resources and through continued investment in these domains, our team has built a proprietary general-purpose model with multimodal capabilities. This model supports over 50 downstream business services including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, which are available to enterprise customers via the Volcano Engine. Currently, the Doubao App is the most used AIGC application in the China market.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2024. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with ByteDance.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to a start date before the end of 2024. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally.

Responsibilities

• Explore large-scale models and optimize systems to the extreme;
• Data construction, instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model optimization;
• Implementation of relevant applications, including content generation, reasoning, code generation, etc.;
• In-depth research and exploration of more usage scenarios in future life.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ph.D. graduate with a background in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field
• Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, NOI/IOI, Top Coder, Kaggle, etc. are preferred;
• Familiar with NLP, CV-related algorithms, technologies, and familiar with large-scale model training and RL algorithms are preferred;
• Candidates who have led influential projects or papers in the field of large-scale models are preferred;
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent problem analysis and solving skills, able to deeply solve problems in large-scale model training and application;
• Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress.
  
  

【For NYC】Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $250000 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.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• 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; and
• Exercising sound judgment.
  
  

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