Seed LLM Research Scientist (PhD)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Match

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

ByteDance Seed team in San Jose is seeking a Research Scientist Graduate (Seed Model - LLM) to advance large language models. You will work on pretraining, posttraining, inference, memory, and optimization, collaborating across teams to push state-of-the-art capabilities.

As a PhD holder, you will contribute to data construction, instruction tuning, and novel applications while planning an onboarding date by year end. This role emphasizes strong coding, research rigor, and teamwork.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Excellent coding ability in C/C++ or Python.
• Experience with large-scale model training and ML algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Explore large-scale models and optimize systems.
• Data construction, instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model optimization.
• Improve model capabilities such as reasoning, code, math, etc.
• Conduct in-depth research on future use cases.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Deep Learning

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

ByteDance Seed team in San Jose is seeking a Research Scientist Graduate (Seed Model - LLM) to advance large language models. You will work on pretraining, posttraining, inference, memory, and optimization, collaborating across teams to push state-of-the-art capabilities.

As a PhD holder, you will contribute to data construction, instruction tuning, and novel applications while planning an onboarding date by year end. This role emphasizes strong coding, research rigor, and teamwork.