Student Researcher - (Seed Model - Video) – 2026 Start (PhD)

Bytedance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 138,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays

Housing allowance

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

ByteDance Seed Team seeks PhD interns to advance foundational models for visual generation and long-range video synthesis. You will contribute to research and development of multimodal generative models, with an emphasis on interactivity and controllability in video creation.

The program blends hands-on work, community-building, and mentorship, offering exposure to cutting-edge AI research and real-world applications in GenAI. Strong publication record is valued.

Qualifications

• PhD candidate in Computer Vision or ML required.
• Research experience in generative modeling for video or temporal sequences.
• First-author publications in top CV/ML conferences.
• Proficiency with deep learning frameworks and large video datasets.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable architectures for long-range video generation with consistent motion, identity, and layout.
• Explore hierarchical or recurrent latent structures to support generation across long temporal spans.
• Address temporal drift, motion collapse, and high-frequency detail retention challenges.
• Investigate autoregressive or chunked generation strategies balancing quality and memory.
• Design evaluation protocols for long video quality and semantic continuity.

Skills

PhD candidate in CV/ML

Video generative modeling research

Publications in CVPR/ICCV/NeurIPS/ICML

Deep learning frameworks (PyTorch)

Education

PhD in Computer Vision or ML

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team

The Seed Vision Team focuses on foundational models for visual generation, developing multimodal generative models, and carrying out leading research and application development to solve fundamental computer vision challenges in GenAI. Researching and developing foundational models for visual generation (images and videos), ensuring high interactivity and controllability in visual generation, understanding patterns in videos, and exploring various visual-oriented tasks based on generative foundational models.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.

Our dynamic internship experience blends hands‑on learning, enriching community‑building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable architectures for long-range video generation with consistent motion, identity, and layout.
• Explore hierarchical or recurrent latent structures to support generation across long temporal spans.
• Address challenges in temporal drift, motion collapse, and high-frequency detail retention.
• Investigate autoregressive or chunked generation strategies that balance quality and memory.
• Design evaluation protocols for long video quality (e.g., realism, consistency, semantic continuity).

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Research experience in generative modeling, especially for video, motion, or temporal sequences.
• First-author publications in CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML.
• Proficiency in deep learning frameworks and experience with large-scale video datasets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with diffusion or transformer-based video models, or long-context sequence generation.
• Familiarity with long-form video datasets.
• Understanding of perceptual metrics and user-study-based video evaluation.

As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States. For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship or any immigration-related benefits.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $85- $85.

• Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location.
• Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more.
• Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year).
• Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgement.

About Doubao (Seed)

Established in 2023, the ByteDance Seed team is dedicated to pioneering new paths toward artificial general intelligence. We aspire to advance the frontier of intelligence to drive progress for both technology and society.

With a long-term vision for the AI sector, the Seed team's research spans MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics. We maintain a global presence with laboratories and career opportunities across China, Singapore, and the United States. To date, we have launched industry-leading general foundation models and cutting-edge multimodal capabilities. Our technology powers over 50 application scenarios — including Doubao, Jimeng, TRAE, Dola and Dreamnia — and serves enterprise customers through Volcano Engine and BytePlus. Third-party data shows that the Doubao App ranks first in user volume in the Chinese market, while Doubao foundation models lead the industry in average daily token consumption.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Reasonable Accommodation

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