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Student Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model - Speech Understanding) - 2025 Start (PhD)

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ByteDance is seeking a Student Researcher for a unique opportunity in 2025 that combines academic advancement with industry exposure. Designed for PhD candidates, this role emphasizes research in innovative speech and audio technologies, offering flexible commitments and hands-on experiences that contribute significantly to product development. Join us to empower content understanding and enhance user interactions across various platforms.

Qualifications

  • Pursuing a PhD in a related technical discipline.
  • Publications in ML/DL venues preferred.
  • Deep understanding of large language models.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct cutting-edge research and development in speech/audio foundation models.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on key research areas.
  • Integrate research findings into applications for ByteDance products.

Skills

Research
Collaboration
Algorithms
Programming in C/C++
Programming in Python

Education

PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

TensorFlow
PyTorch
Distributed Computing

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Student Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model - Speech Understanding) - 2025 Start (PhD)

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Responsibilities

The speech team's mission is to empower content understanding, interaction and creation across ByteDance and other products using speech & audio related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like speech & audio, music processing, natural language understanding and multimodal deep learning. We are looking for top talents to work on these exciting technologies, integrate them into various ByteDance products and ultimately bring joy to our global user base!

Responsibilities

The speech team's mission is to empower content understanding, interaction and creation across ByteDance and other products using speech & audio related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like speech & audio, music processing, natural language understanding and multimodal deep learning. We are looking for top talents to work on these exciting technologies, integrate them into various ByteDance products and ultimately bring joy to our global user base!

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for a Student Researcher opportunity in 2025. Student Researcher opportunities at ByteDance aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Turn your ambitions into reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at ByteDance.

The Student Researcher position provides unique opportunities that go beyond the constraints of our standard internship program, allowing for flexibility in duration, time commitment, and location of work.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct cutting-edge research and development in speech/audio foundation models.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify key research areas and contribute to the development of innovative speech/audio models.
  • Work with product development teams to integrate research findings into practical applications for TikTok and other platforms.
  • Collaborate on team-driven projects to address complex challenges and enhance the overall effectiveness of the research team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualification

  • Publications in top-tier ML/DL venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI and speech venues such as ICASSP, ASRU, Interspeech.
  • Deep understanding of Large Language models.
  • Familiar with distributed computing and large scale model training.
  • Familiar with deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and Pytorch.
  • Familiar with engineering principles and best practices.
  • Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, multi-functional environments.

By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://jobs.bytedance.com/en/legal/privacy.

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

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