Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Multimodal Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD) jobs in United States
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ByteDance · 7 hours ago

Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Multimodal Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD)

positionUnited States
timeInternship
remoteRemote
seniorityIntern
money$60/hr - $60/hr
workcardStart in 2026

ByteDance is a pioneering company dedicated to advanced AI foundation models. The role involves conducting research on multimodal video generation and collaborating with researchers and engineers to enhance generative models for visual content.

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Responsibilities

Conduct research on multimodal video generation, with a focus on improving semantic alignment between inputs and generated content
Integrate vision-language models (e.g., CLIP, pre/post-trained VLMs) into video generation architectures to enhance input understanding
Explore and implement joint training or fine-tuning approaches that couple VLMs with video generation backbones
Evaluate model performance on tasks requiring high-level reasoning or detailed semantic control over generation
Collaborate with researchers and engineers to iterate on prototypes within an existing infrastructure

Qualification

Computer VisionMachine LearningVision-language modelsVideo generationPyTorchResearch abilityClean codingCollaboration

Required

Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field
Research experience in one or more of the following areas: Vision-language models (VLMs); Multimodal or joint model training; Video generation
Solid coding ability and clean research implementation style, and expected to work with a production-grade codebase (e.g., PyTorch)
Demonstrated research ability, with first-author publications in top-tier ML/CV/AI conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and ICLR

Preferred

Experience in training or fine-tuning autoregressive or diffusion-based video generation models
Background in multimodal instruction-following, alignment, or conditioning for generation tasks
Understanding of evaluation techniques for assessing semantic consistency in generated video

Benefits

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

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ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
dateFounded in 2012
location
Beijing, Beijing, CHN
people-size10001+ employees
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http://bytedance.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2023 (775)
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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$9.8B
Key Investors
Capital TodayG42Tiger Global Management
2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M
2024-07-25Secondary Market
2023-03-14Secondary Market· $100M

Leadership Team

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Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
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Matty Lin
Managing Director, Monetization and Partnerships
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