ByteDance
Research Scientist Graduate (Data-Intelligent Creation-Vision and Graphics-Global GenAI) - 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 may be completing or have recently completed it.
About the job
Conduct computer vision and machine-learning research in generative AI, transfer technologies to TikTok and other products, and explore AI-powered products.
What you'll do
- Research and develop generative AI, including image, video, or 3D generation.
- Transfer advanced technologies to TikTok and other products.
- Explore new products with artificial intelligence at their core.
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, or related multimodal work; large-scale training, RLHF, and generative AI.
- Experience with diffusion models, GANs, or transformers for generation tasks; publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, or SIGGRAPH Asia.
Tools
Python, C++, Diffusion model, GAN, transformer
AI focus
Applied research and development in generative AI, including multimodal foundation models, image/video/3D generation and editing, efficient modeling, and world models.
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