ByteDance
Research Scientist - Model Capability Boundary Exploration and AI Data Flywheel System Development - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related technical field.
About the job
Develop research and systems for a real-world AI data flywheel that uses logs, cases, feedback, and environmental information to improve foundation models and business-system agents, while building and operating an LLM-as-a-Service platform.
What you'll do
- Build, develop, and maintain a large-model-as-a-service platform for LLM applications, including training and fine-tuning, inference, model management, and resource orchestration.
- Manage GPU resources and provide computing capacity efficiently.
- Develop agent optimization capabilities and data-driven feedback loops to improve models and business systems.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- Research experience in at least one of: LLM post-training and alignment, model evaluation, test-time scaling, agent systems, or large-scale data curation and optimization.
- Demonstrated research ability through publications, substantial research projects, or internships.
- Ability to work independently on open-ended research problems, from problem formulation through experimental execution.
Nice to have
- Interest in foundation models and data-centric AI, including data flywheels, continual learning, data curation and valuation, or algorithm-infrastructure co-design.
- Multiple first-author papers at top-tier venues, or relevant research or internship experience, ideally involving scalable ML systems or real-world deployment.
Tools
LLM, GPU
AI focus
Research and develop AI data flywheels, model evaluation and improvement, agent systems, and LLM service platform capabilities using real-world data and feedback.
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