ByteDance
Research Scientist (Seed Model - Multimodal Interaction & World Model)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline; PhD preferred.
About the job
Research and develop multimodal foundation models and unified video, audio, and language systems, focusing on visual latent reasoning and model evaluation.
What you'll do
- Develop large-scale multimodal foundation models and unified video, audio, and language modeling frameworks.
- Explore reinforcement learning methods connecting multimodal understanding and generation for visual reasoning.
- Collaborate on evaluating models for world modeling, reasoning, and instruction-conditioned generation.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed an MS in a listed or related discipline.
- Publications in accredited venues, such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML.
- Strong research background in at least one of reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, video understanding, or vision-language modeling.
Nice to have
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in a listed or related discipline.
- Experience with multimodal or interactive-environment reinforcement learning, video generation or diffusion models, large-scale training, or ML training/evaluation pipelines.
Tools
Reinforcement Learning
AI focus
Research and develop multimodal foundation models, visual latent reasoning, and reinforcement learning approaches for multimodal understanding, generation, and interaction.
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