Research Scientist — Large-Scale Language Models

Pangle; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking talented researchers for the LLM team in San Jose. The role involves exploring large-scale models, data construction, and optimization across pretraining, posttraining, and inference.

You will work on improving capabilities like reasoning and coding, with a focus on real-world applications. Successful candidates should have a recent PhD in a relevant field and strong programming skills (C/C++ or Python).

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Excellent coding ability and fundamentals in algorithms.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C/C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related

Job description

ByteDance is seeking talented researchers for the LLM team in San Jose. The role involves exploring large-scale models, data construction, and optimization across pretraining, posttraining, and inference.

You will work on improving capabilities like reasoning and coding, with a focus on real-world applications. Successful candidates should have a recent PhD in a relevant field and strong programming skills (C/C++ or Python).