Drimva

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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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)