Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Long-Range Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD) jobs in United States
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ByteDance · 2 weeks ago

Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Long-Range Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD)

positionSan Jose, CA
timeInternship
remoteOnsite
seniorityIntern
workcardStart in 2026

ByteDance is a leading technology company dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models. They are seeking a Student Researcher for their Seed Vision Team to focus on developing multimodal generative models and addressing fundamental challenges in computer vision.

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Responsibilities

Develop scalable architectures for long-range video generation with consistent motion, identity, and layout
Explore hierarchical or recurrent latent structures to support generation across long temporal spans
Address challenges in temporal drift, motion collapse, and high-frequency detail retention
Investigate autoregressive or chunked generation strategies that balance quality and memory
Design evaluation protocols for long video quality (e.g., realism, consistency, semantic continuity)

Qualification

Generative modelingDeep learning frameworksVideo datasetsDiffusion modelsTransformer-based modelsPerceptual metricsResearch experienceFirst-author publicationsUser-study evaluation

Required

Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field
Research experience in generative modeling, especially for video, motion, or temporal sequences
First-author publications in CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML
Proficiency in deep learning frameworks and experience with large-scale video datasets

Preferred

Experience with diffusion or transformer-based video models, or long-context sequence generation
Familiarity with long-form video datasets
Understanding of perceptual metrics and user-study-based video evaluation

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

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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

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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
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
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