ByteDance
Research Scientist Graduate (Video Quality Analysis & Coding Strategy) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Completing or recently completed a PhD; no years of experience specified.
- Education
- PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Research video analysis and quality-assessment algorithms, and develop strategies that combine analysis, processing, and encoding to improve video quality and efficiency.
What you'll do
- Design video-analysis and quality-assessment algorithms, including database creation and algorithm development and optimization.
- Help design end-to-end video-quality optimization strategies combining video analysis, processing, and encoding.
- Apply algorithms to VOD and live-streaming monitoring and evaluation, and collaborate on production integration and A/B testing.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- In-depth knowledge of video-analysis algorithms or subjective/objective video-quality algorithms and state-of-the-art technologies.
- Proficiency in at least one of C, C++, or Python.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with ML and image-processing tools, deep-learning frameworks, Transformer architectures, and multimodal large models (MLLMs).
- Familiarity with Linux development environments, shell scripting, HDFS, or common video-processing algorithms.
Tools
C, C++, Python, sklearn, opencv, ffmpeg, Tensorflow, Pytorch
AI focus
Research and develop multimodal foundation-model applications for video understanding, quality assessment, generative enhancement, user-preference-aligned processing, and visual representation or compression.
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