ByteDance · 4 hours ago
Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Multimodal Joint Modeling] – 2026 Start (PhD)
San Jose, CA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$60/hr - $60/hr
Start in 2026ByteDance is a leading company in AI foundation models, focusing on advanced research and technological advancements. The role of Student Researcher involves conducting research on multimodal generative models and contributing to foundational models for visual generation.
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Responsibilities
Conduct research on joint training of vision, language, and video models under a unified architecture
Develop scalable and efficient methods for autoregressive-style multimodal pretraining, supporting both understanding and generation
Explore cross-modal tokenization, alignment, and shared representation strategies
Investigate instruction tuning, captioning, and open-ended generation capabilities across modalities
Contribute to system-level improvements in data curation, model optimization, and evaluation pipelines
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field
Research experience in multimodal learning, large-scale pretraining, or vision-language modeling
Proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX
Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research, with publications in top-tier conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
Preferred
Experience with autoregressive LLM training, especially in multimodal or unified modeling settings
Familiarity with instruction tuning, vision-language generation, or unified token space design
Background in model scaling, efficient training, or data mixture strategies
Ability to work closely with infrastructure teams to deploy large-scale training workflows
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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