ByteDance · 10 hours ago
Research Scientist in Code Generation Graduate (Seed-LLM) - 2026 Start (PhD)
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$119K/yr - $259K/yrByteDance is a leading technology company dedicated to inspiring creativity and enriching life through innovative products. They are seeking a Research Scientist to join their Seed team, focusing on state-of-the-art models in code generation and collaborating with software engineers and open-source communities to advance AI development.
ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
Design and deploy state-of-the-art models in various downstream applications, especially code generation and autogpt applications
Collaborate with software engineers to build enterprise-level platforms with cutting-edge models
Collaborate with open-source communities or academia to advance AI development
Qualification
Required
has research or technical backgrounds in LLM, code generation, large pre-trained models
Candidates with pre-training foundation technologies, including efficient training and pretraining as a service
Preferred
Candidates with conference papers, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, KDD, etc., relevant internship experience or winners of ACM competitions
Proficient in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, and programming languages such as Python or Java
Benefits
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
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
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
Capital TodayG42Tiger Global Management
2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M
2024-07-25Secondary Market
2023-03-14Secondary Market· $100M
Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
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