Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Multimodal Interaction & World Model Pretraining] – 2026 Start (PhD) jobs in United States
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ByteDance · 7 hours ago

Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Multimodal Interaction & World Model Pretraining] – 2026 Start (PhD)

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

ByteDance is dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models and is seeking a PhD intern for their Seed Multimodal Interaction and World Model team. The role involves contributing to research and engineering efforts to enhance multimodal understanding and developing models for interactive exploration.

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Responsibilities

Contribute to research and engineering to advance world models and multimodal understanding, enhancing models' reasoning and generation capabilities
Design and prototype novel architectures that balance modeling performance, generalization, and efficiency
Help establish scaling laws and conduct systematic ablations to derive transferrable insights across model families and tasks

Qualification

Computer VisionMachine LearningPyTorchLarge-scale trainingMultimodal modelingTransformer architecturesFoundation model pretrainingResearch publicationsScaling behavior analysisData preparation pipelines

Required

Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related technical field
Familiarity with multimodal modeling, world models, or foundation model pretraining
Strong coding skills and hands-on experience with PyTorch or JAX
Experience with large-scale distributed training frameworks and GPU/TPU compute stacks
Demonstrated research ability, with publications in top-tier conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR

Preferred

Experience working with transformer-based architectures, including dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models
Understanding of scaling behavior in foundation models and how to analyze them
Familiarity with data preparation pipelines for large-scale multimodal pretraining

Benefits

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

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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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