Research Scientist, Vision & Multimodal AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

ByteDance Seed is seeking graduates to join the Seed Vision team, focusing on foundational models for visual generation and multimodal generative models. You will tackle challenging CV problems, pursue bold ideas, and contribute to cutting-edge research and application development.

Successful candidates should commit to an onboarding date by year-end and clearly state availability and graduation date in their resume.

Qualifications

• PhD completed or near completion in CS, EE, ECE, physics, math, or related field.
• Strong coding skills and experience with CV or multimodal learning.
• Experience with large-scale model training and deep learning architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale vision foundation models across image and video modalities.
• Design data pipelines, pre-training strategies, and post-training methods for vision tasks.
• Improve core capabilities such as perception, reasoning, and multimodal understanding.
• Optimize model architectures, training efficiency, and evaluation frameworks.
• Explore real-world applications of vision models in multimodal systems.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Education

PhD in CS or related

Job description

ByteDance Seed is seeking graduates to join the Seed Vision team, focusing on foundational models for visual generation and multimodal generative models. You will tackle challenging CV problems, pursue bold ideas, and contribute to cutting-edge research and application development.

Successful candidates should commit to an onboarding date by year-end and clearly state availability and graduation date in their resume.