ByteDance · 12 hours ago
Student Researcher [Seed – Multimodal Interaction & World Model - Unified Model] – 2026 Start (PhD)
San Jose, CA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$65/hr - $65/hr
Start in 2026ByteDance is dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models, and they are seeking a Student Researcher for their Seed Multimodal Interaction and World Model team. The role involves developing unified modeling architectures for multimodal foundation models and collaborating with researchers to scale and adapt models for real-world scenarios.
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Responsibilities
Develop and evaluate unified modeling architectures for multimodal foundation models across vision, audio, and language
Contribute to building a shared representation space that supports both generation and understanding tasks
Explore architectural and optimization strategies to improve generalization across modalities and tasks
Collaborate with researchers working on generation, reasoning, and world modeling to scale and adapt models for real-world scenarios
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Publications in top-tier 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: generative modeling (e.g., diffusion models, transformers), multimodal learning, or representation learning
Solid engineering and modeling skills, with experience building and training large-scale ML systems
Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
Preferred
Experience in building or training models for both generative and discriminative tasks
Familiarity with joint modeling strategies (e.g., multitask learning, contrastive alignment, autoregressive decoding for understanding)
Background in video generation, vision-language pretraining, or instruction-conditioned generation
Interest in long-context modeling, memory architectures, or world modeling tasks
Benefits
Day one access to health insurance
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
Housing allowance
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
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Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
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