Vision Foundation Scientist - Seed Models (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

Disability Coverage

Wellbeing Benefits

Paid Holidays

PTO

Job summary

ByteDance Seed team in San Jose is seeking a Research Scientist Graduate focused on Vision to develop and scale vision foundation models for image and video. You will design data pipelines, pre-training and post-training strategies, and push forward perception and multimodal understanding capabilities.

The role emphasizes strong coding skills in C/C++ or Python, deep learning knowledge, and experience in computer vision or multimodal learning.

Qualifications

• PhD candidates or recent PhDs in relevant fields.
• Strong coding skills in C/C++ or Python and data structures.
• Experience with vision or multimodal model training.
• Solid understanding of deep learning architectures and training methods.

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

Computer Vision

Multimodal Learning

Deep Learning

Education

PhD in CS/EE/ECE/Physics/Math

Job description

ByteDance Seed team in San Jose is seeking a Research Scientist Graduate focused on Vision to develop and scale vision foundation models for image and video. You will design data pipelines, pre-training and post-training strategies, and push forward perception and multimodal understanding capabilities.

The role emphasizes strong coding skills in C/C++ or Python, deep learning knowledge, and experience in computer vision or multimodal learning.