ByteDance · 4 hours ago
Research Scientist Graduate - (Multimodal Interaction and World Model - Pre-Training) - 2026 Start (PhD)
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$187K/yr - $438K/yrByteDance is dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models and driving technological and societal advancements. The successful candidate will drive research and engineering to advance models that enhance understanding of multimodal data and enlarge reasoning capabilities, while also designing novel architectures for optimized performance and efficiency.
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Responsibilities
Drive research and engineering to advance models that enhance understanding of multimodal data and enlarge reasoning capabilities
Design novel architectures that optimize both the model's performance and efficiency
Establish scaling laws, design and conduct systematic ablations that result in transferrable conclusions
Qualification
Required
Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or other conferences in AI and ML
Strong research background in at least one of the following: reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, video understanding, or vision-language modeling
Preferred
Expertise in Transformers (Dense and MoE) and familiar with how to scale Transformers on GPUs or TPUs
Rich hands-on experience in PyTorch/JAX and distributed training framework
Familiar with state-of-the-art techniques for preparing multimodal training data
Benefits
Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
A 401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
Founded in 2012
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.8BKey Investors
Capital TodayG42Tiger Global Management
2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M
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2023-03-14Secondary Market· $100M
Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
Recent News
2026-01-12
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