Student Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model - Speech & Audio) - 2025 Start (PhD) - Bytedance : Job Details

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The SAMI team's mission is to empower content interaction and creation across ByteDance products using speech & audio related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like speech & audio, music processing, natural language understanding and multimodal deep learning. We are looking for top talents to work on these exciting technologies, integrate them into various ByteDance products and ultimately bring joy to our global user base!

• Contribute cutting-edge research to ByteDance product evolution (e.g., TikTok, Douyin, CapCut) to impact billions of users worldwide.
• Work on advanced science and technology in audio processing and generation (e.g., Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion, Audio Codec Learning, Audio Language Modeling, etc.).
• Research, model, design, develop and evaluate novel machine learning models and algorithms.
• Collaborate with globally based researchers and engineering teams in developing machine learning models and algorithms.

• Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, or related technical field.
• Good knowledge of theoretical and empirical research in addressing research problems.
• Solid knowledge and experience with at least one popular deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and familiarity with deep neural network architectures.
• Good presentation and communication skills.
• Experience in both neural and non-neural, classical machine learning models and algorithms.
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

• Research experience in one or more of the following fields: speech synthesis, audio generation, large language model, computer vision, generative models.
• Strong first-author publications record in top AI conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL etc.).
• Proficient in C / C++ , Python, and shell programming languages, and have a deep understanding of data structure and algorithm design.
• Internship experience in an AI research organization.

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About Doubao (Seed): Founded in 2023, the ByteDance Doubao (Seed) Team is dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models and driving technological and societal advancements across AI areas including deep learning, reinforcement learning, Language, Vision, Audio, AI Infra and AI Safety.

Why Join ByteDance: ByteDance aims to inspire creativity and enrich life. Our diverse teams work to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect. We strive to create value for communities and to achieve meaningful breakthroughs by fostering an Always Day 1 mindset.

Diversity & Inclusion: ByteDance is committed to an inclusive workplace and celebrating diverse voices. We aim to reflect the communities we reach.

Reasonable Accommodation: ByteDance provides reasonable accommodations in recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities or other protected reasons. If you need assistance, please reach out to us at

For Pay Transparency: Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern. The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60. Benefits may vary depending on location. Interns have day one health, life, wellbeing benefits and more, with paid holidays and sick time. Housing allowance may apply where applicable. The Company reserves the right to modify benefits at any time.