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ByteDance · 3 days ago

Student Researcher in Foundation Models (Reasoning, Planning & Agent)

San Jose, CA

Internship

Onsite

Intern Level

$60/hr - $60/hr

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Responsibilities

Reasoning and planning for foundation models. Enhance reasoning and planning throughout the entire development process, encompassing data acquisition, model evaluation, pretraining, SFT, reward modeling, and reinforcement learning, to bolster overall performance.

Synthesize large-scale, high-quality (multi-modal) data through methods such as rewriting, augmentation, and generation to improve the abilities of foundation models in various stages (pretraining, SFT, RLHF).

Solve complex tasks via system 2 thinking, leverage advanced decoding strategies such as MCTS, A.

Investigate and implement robust evaluation methodologies to assess model performance at various stages, unravel the underlying mechanisms and sources of their abilities, and utilize this understanding to drive model improvements.

Teach foundation models to use tools, interact with APIs and code interpreters. Build agents and multi-agents to solve complex tasks.

Qualification

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LLMDeep learningPublication recordCoding abilityData structuresAlgorithm skillsC/C++PythonCompetition experienceACM/ICPCUSACO/NOI/IOITop CoderKaggleTechnology explorationTechnological progressCommunicationCollaborationSoftware EngineeringNatural Language ProcessingProblem-SolvingCreativity

Required

Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, or related technical field.

Excellent knowledge of theory and practice of LLM and foundation model, as well as deep learning.

Strong publication record at leading conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML etc.).

Excellent coding ability, familiar with data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, USACO/NOI/IOI, Top Coder, Kaggle, etc.

Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress.

Preferred

Demonstrated software engineering or natural language processing, deep learning experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications.

High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities.

Benefits

100% premium coverage for Full-Time intern medical insurance after 90 days from the date of hire

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Employee Assistance Program for mental and emotional health benefits

Reimbursements for mobile phone expense

Company

ByteDance

Glassdoor

3.8

ByteDance is an internet technology company that operates creative content platforms.

Founded in 2012

Beijing, Beijing, CHN

10,001+ employees

http://bytedance.com

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