ByteDance
Research Scientist - Driven Agent Self-Evolution - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a closely related discipline; completing or recently completed.
About the job
Research and build agent systems that improve from execution traces, user feedback, and environmental signals, translating research into production-scale systems.
What you'll do
- Develop agent frameworks that learn continuously from traces, feedback, and environmental signals.
- Build log analytics pipelines to extract quality signals and usage patterns for system and model improvement.
- Apply LLM post-training, reasoning, and planning techniques, and collaborate to deploy research at scale.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a closely related discipline.
- Strong theoretical and practical foundation in machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, or optimization.
- Research experience in at least one area: LLM-based agents, planning and reasoning, multi-agent systems, continual/lifelong learning, or LLM post-training.
- Strong Python programming skills, proficiency with ML frameworks, and a publication record at top-tier venues.
Nice to have
- Publications related to agent learning and adaptation, or research experience in LLM reasoning and planning.
- Experience training or fine-tuning LLMs, building or evaluating LLM-based agents, or feedback-driven optimization.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, RLHF, DPO, GRPO
AI focus
Research on self-evolving agents, continual learning from interaction, LLM post-training, reasoning and planning, and evaluation-governance loops.
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