Student Researcher [Seed Vision – World Models for Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD) jobs in United States
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ByteDance · 3 hours ago

Student Researcher [Seed Vision – World Models for Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD)

positionSan Jose, CA
timeInternship
remoteOnsite
seniorityIntern
money$60/hr - $60/hr
workcardStart in 2026

ByteDance is a leading technology company committed to pioneering advanced AI foundation models. The Student Researcher will contribute to foundational models for visual generation, focusing on developing multimodal generative models and addressing fundamental computer vision challenges.

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Responsibilities

Develop world models that simulate physical, embodied, or abstract environments through video generation
Learn latent dynamics from video sequences that support controllable or goal-conditioned generation
Model spatial-temporal consistency, causality, and state transitions in realistic or synthetic video datasets
Explore integration of control signals (e.g., actions, prompts, scene graphs) into video generation pipelines
Build benchmarks and analysis tools to measure dynamics understanding and causal consistency

Qualification

PhD in Computer VisionResearch experience in video generationGenerative frameworks familiarityModel-based RL experienceStructured representationsSpecific datasetsFirst-author publications

Required

Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field
Research experience in video generation, world models, or dynamics modeling
First-author publications in CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML
Familiarity with generative frameworks (e.g., VAE, diffusion, transformers) and temporal modeling

Preferred

Experience with model-based RL, embodied video prediction, or interactive generative agents
Understanding of structured representations (e.g., latent state, object-centric video models)
Familiarity with datasets like Physion, CATER, or RLBench for grounded video modeling

Benefits

Day one access to health insurance
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
Housing allowance

Company

ByteDance

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ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
dateFounded in 2012
location
Beijing, Beijing, CHN
people-size10001+ employees
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http://bytedance.com

H1B Sponsorship

ByteDance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1350)
2024 (1123)
2023 (775)
2022 (487)
2021 (417)
2020 (245)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$9.8B
Key Investors
Capital TodayG42Tiger Global Management
2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M
2024-07-25Secondary Market
2023-03-14Secondary Market· $100M

Leadership Team

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Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
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Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
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