ByteDance · 2 weeks ago
Student Researcher [Seed LLM Horizon – Async Agent & Proactive Agent] - 2026 Start (PhD)
United States
Internship
Remote
InternByteDance is a leading technology company dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models. They are seeking passionate PhD interns to contribute to agent research and development, focusing on innovative architectures and evaluation methods.
ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
Establish effective, robust, and realistic evaluation methods for asynchronous and proactive agents
Devise effective architectures for constructing asynchronous and proactive agents
Develop training strategies that reliably produce high-quality asynchronous and proactive behavior
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field
Research experience in one or more of the following: reinforcement learning, LLM agents, memory systems, tool use, or interactive learning
Strong coding skills and proficiency with modern deep learning frameworks
Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research, with publications in top-tier ML/AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP etc
Preferred
Experience with long-horizon reasoning, multi-turn tasks, or asynchronous agent behavior
Familiarity with agent evaluation, personalization, or real-world tool integration
Background in building or analyzing large-scale agent training pipelines
Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, research-driven team environment
Benefits
Interns have 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
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$9.8BKey Investors
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