Drimva

ByteDance

Research Scientist Graduate (Seed Model - Multimodal Interaction & World Model) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Education
PhD in a listed or related discipline; completion may be current or recent.

About the job

Develop multimodal foundation and world models for reasoning, planning, interaction, and multimodal assistant products.

What you'll do

  • Develop models integrating vision, language, audio, and environment signals; design and optimize world models.
  • Build training pipelines for data curation, alignment, and reinforcement learning; improve agent capabilities including perception, memory, decision-making, and tool use.
  • Explore new interaction paradigms between humans and intelligent systems.

What they ask for

  • Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
  • Excellent coding, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills; proficiency in C/C++ or Python, etc.
  • Experience in multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, or agent systems.
  • Familiarity with large-scale model training or simulation environments.

Nice to have

  • Strong research track record in relevant areas.
  • Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Tools

C/C++, Python

AI focus

Develop multimodal foundation models, world models, and agent capabilities; work includes reinforcement learning, model training, and human–AI interaction.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)