Research Scientist, Intelligent Editing (Multimodality)

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 177,688 - 341,734; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

ByteDance is looking for a skilled technology professional in Seattle to conduct research and development in computer vision and AI technologies. The candidate will be responsible for transferring advanced technologies to products and exploring new AI-driven initiatives. With a competitive salary range of $177,688 - $341,734 annually, the role offers excellent benefits including medical insurance, 401(k) plans, and generous paid time off. Ideal candidates have a strong background in multimodal understanding and language models.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of research and practical experience in computer vision.
• Experience in multimodal understanding, such as video highlight detection.
• Experience with language models for intelligent editing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting‑edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning.
• Transfer advanced technologies to ByteDance products.
• Explore new AI-driven products and enhancements.

Skills

computer vision

multimodal understanding

image/video captioning

C/C++ programming

Python programming

Job description

Location: Seattle

Team: Technology

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A147525

About the team

The Intelligent Creation Team is the AI, special effects, and audio-video creation technology team, responsible for the core technology and business development. It covers a variety of technical fields, including deep learning, computer vision, graphics, speech, recording and editing, special effects, client and server engineering, and provides cutting‑edge content understanding, content creation, interactive experience, and consumption capabilities and industry solutions to other business lines within the company and external partners in various forms.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting‑edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning, especially in the areas of multi‑modal understanding, vision and language, large‑scale training, etc.
• Transfer advanced technologies to ByteDance products.
• Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 1 year of research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision.
• Experience in multimodal understanding, such as video highlight detection and slicing, audio/music understanding, etc.
• Experience in vision and language, such as image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA, and other related fields.
• Experience with language models and applying them in various downstream tasks, especially for intelligent editing.
• Experience in large‑scale training and RLHF.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference for candidates with publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc.
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming; strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python.
• Work and collaborate well with team members.
• Ability to work independently.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177,688 - $341,734 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work. The 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.

Fair Chance Hiring

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;
• 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