Research Scientist, Multimodal AI & Speech

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 254,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Parental leave

Short/Long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing programs

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

ByteDance Seed is hiring researchers to push the frontiers of artificial general intelligence. The team explores MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics, with global labs and opportunities in the United States, China, and Singapore.

Successful candidates will join a collaborative, cutting-edge environment. As a PhD holder, you will contribute to foundational models, speech and multimodal research, and work with world-class teams while meeting US work eligibility requirements.

Qualifications

• Candidates who are completing or have recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Strong grounding in theoretical and empirical research methods to address complex problems.
• Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow and familiarity with deep neural network architectures.
• Experience with a range of ML models and algorithms, both neural and non-neural.

Responsibilities

• Contribute cutting-edge research to ByteDance product evolution (e.g., Douyin, Capcut, and other apps).
• Work on advanced science and technology in audio processing and generation (e.g., Dialogue Systems, Audio-Video Models, Speech Synthesis).
• Research, model, design, develop and evaluate novel machine learning models and algorithms.
• Collaborate with globally based researchers and engineering teams.

Skills

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Deep learning

Neural networks

C++

Python

Shell scripting

Education

PhD in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering / related

Tools

C/C++

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

ByteDance Seed is hiring researchers to push the frontiers of artificial general intelligence. The team explores MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics, with global labs and opportunities in the United States, China, and Singapore.

Successful candidates will join a collaborative, cutting-edge environment. As a PhD holder, you will contribute to foundational models, speech and multimodal research, and work with world-class teams while meeting US work eligibility requirements.