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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