ByteDance
Research Scientist (Seed Model - Vision)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- MS in a listed or related discipline; PhD preferred.
About the job
Conduct research and development on visual foundation generative models to address computer vision challenges and strengthen ByteDance products.
What you'll do
- Research and develop visual foundation generative models.
- Develop foundation models to enhance ByteDance products’ strategic advantages.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed an MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- Research and practical application experience in at least one area of computer vision and machine learning.
- Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks; strong algorithmic and programming ability, including Python.
- Ability to work and collaborate well with team members.
Nice to have
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in a listed or related discipline; publications at venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, SIGGRAPH, or Multimedia.
- Experience solving real-world machine learning problems, large-scale image and video training, or large-scale training.
Tools
PyTorch, Python
AI focus
Research and develop visual foundation generative models and multimodal generative models for computer vision.
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