ByteDance
Research Scientist, Generative AI Graduate (Intelligent Creation) -Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program -2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; candidates must be completing or recently have completed it.
About the job
Conduct applied research and development in generative AI for multimodal content creation, improving image and video generation and agentic models and transferring technologies to TikTok and other products.
What you'll do
- Research and develop generative AI technologies, especially image, video, or 3D generation.
- Contribute to multimodal model post-training, unified image and video modeling, and agent capabilities.
- Transfer advanced technologies to TikTok and other products and explore AI-centered products.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.
- Strong competence in algorithms and programming, with strong coding skills in Python/C++.
Nice to have
- Experience with multimodal generation, image/video/3D generation and editing, large-scale training, RLHF, or generative AI.
- Experience with diffusion models, GANs, or transformers for generation tasks; publications at venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, or SIGGRAPH Asia.
Tools
Python, C++, SFT, RL, LLM, RLHF, Diffusion model, GAN
AI focus
Applied generative AI research for multimodal content creation, including image and video generation, multimodal model post-training, and agentic foundation models and reinforcement learning.
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