Student Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model AI Platform) - 2025 Start (PhD) - Bytedance : Job Details

Student Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model AI Platform) - 2025 Start (PhD) at ByteDance. Join to apply for the Student Researcher role on the GAI-Vision team, which spearheads multi-modality foundation models for visual understanding and generation. The team conducts cutting-edge research in vision and language, large vision models, and generative foundation models, with a mix of experienced research scientists and engineers. The role focuses on advancing foundation models and applying technologies to rich application scenarios, with a feedback loop to improve foundation technologies and shape the future of AI technologies and product experiences for global users.

• Create AI engineering infrastructure end-to-end for large model development.
• Train, accelerate inference, and deploy models.

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Research and engineering experience in one or more areas of computer vision and natural language processing.
• Ability to work well with team members and collaborate effectively.
• Ability to work independently; strong communication skills.
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

• Experience in multi-modal understanding (vision and language) such as video captioning, VQA, Text-to-video retrieval, and related topics.
• Experience with very large-scale datasets and building datasets to scale up foundation models.
• Experience with language models and applying them to downstream tasks.
• Publications in top venues (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, EMNLP, ACL, COLING).
• Strong programming skills in Python and popular deep learning frameworks; solid algorithmic foundations.

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Founded in 2023, the ByteDance Doubao (Seed) Team pioneers advanced AI foundation models and drive research and societal advancements across labs in China, Singapore, and the US.

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