Research Scientist Graduate (Seed Multimodal Interaction and World Model) - 2027 Start

ByteDance

$218K — $387K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, completing or recently completed.
  • Strong coding skills in C/C++ or Python.
  • Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
  • Interest or project experience in multimodal learning or agent systems.
  • Preferred experience in internships related to reinforcement learning and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Develop multimodal foundation models integrating various sensory signals.
  • Design and optimize world models for enhanced reasoning and interaction.
  • Build and manage training pipelines including data curation and alignment.
  • Enhance agent capabilities in perception, memory, and decision-making.
  • Research next-generation human-intelligent system interaction paradigms.

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave and disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits.
  • Generous paid time off policies including 10 holidays, 10 sick days, and 17 personal days.
Full Job Description
Responsibilitie

About the team The Seed Multimodal Interaction and World Model team is dedicated to developing models that have human-level multimodal understanding and interaction capabilities. The team is working to advance the exploration and development of multimodal assistant products. Responsibilities - Develop multimodal foundation models integrating vision, language, audio, and environment signals. - Design and optimize world models for reasoning, planning, and interaction. - Build training pipelines including data curation, alignment, and reinforcement learning. - Improve agent capabilities such as perception, memory, decision-making, and tool use. - Explore next-generation interaction paradigms between humans and intelligent systems.

Qualification

Minimum Qualifications: - Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline. - Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, etc. - Demonstrated interest or project experience in relevant areas. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, or agent systems through internships is preferred. - Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $218400 - $387600 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

About Doubao (Seed)

Established in 2023, the ByteDance Seed team is dedicated to pioneering new paths toward artificial general intelligence. We aspire to advance the frontier of intelligence to drive progress for both technology and society.

With a long-term vision for the AI sector, the Seed team's research spans MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics. We maintain a global presence with laboratories and career opportunities across China, Singapore, and the United States. To date, we have launched industry-leading general foundation models and cutting-edge multimodal capabilities. Our technology powers over 50 application scenarios - including Doubao, Jimeng, TRAE, Dola and Dreamnia - and serves enterprise customers through Volcano Engine and BytePlus. Third-party data shows that the Doubao App ranks first in user volume in the Chinese market, while Doubao foundation models lead the industry in average daily token consumption.

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