Drimva

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