Research Scientist Graduate (Seed Model - Multimodal Interaction & World Model) - 2026 Start (PhD)
ByteDance, San Jose, California
What you will do
- Drive research and engineering to advance models that enhance understanding of multimodal data and enlarge reasoning capabilities.
- Explore research ideas that optimize both the model's performance and efficiency.
- Establish scaling laws, design and conduct systematic ablations that result in transferrable conclusions.
What you need
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- Publications in accredited venues, such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or other leading 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.