Student Researcher (Seed Vision – Long-Range Video Generation) – 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 69,000; Part time

Job summary

ByteDance Seed is seeking an intern to contribute to foundational models for visual generation within the Seed team based in San Jose. You will collaborate on research for multimodal generative models, with emphasis on video and temporal sequences, under the Technology group.

The role targets PhD students with strong publications and hands-on experience in deep learning, diffusion/transformer video models, and large-scale datasets.

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.

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).

Skills

Video generation research

GenAI research

Deep learning

Education

PhD student in Computer Vision or ML

Tools

PyTorch

Large-scale video datasets

Job description

Join us as we work together to inspire creativity and enrich life around the globe.

Location:

San Jose

Team:

Technology

Employment Type:

Intern

Job Code:

A161019

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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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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