ByteDance
Visual Generation & Multimodal Evaluation Researcher Graduate (AML-Ark-US) - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or a related field.
About the job
Develops evaluation systems, data pipelines, and creative-workflow agents for image and video generation models, using evaluation findings to improve models and products.
What you'll do
- Build evaluation systems and metrics for image and video models and agents, including human evaluation protocols.
- Develop video-generation and debugging agents for multi-step creative workflows.
- Build large-scale image and video data pipelines and apply evaluation findings to model and product improvements.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or a related field.
- Strong foundation in deep learning, computer vision, and generative modeling.
- Practical experience in at least one of visual generation, multimodal LLMs, video understanding, or visual quality assessment.
- Strong Python skills and proficiency with PyTorch or an equivalent framework, or a multimodal evaluation framework; demonstrated research or engineering ability.
Nice to have
- Publications at top-tier vision or ML venues, such as NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, or ECCV.
- Experience with diffusion-based models and post-training, visual generation benchmarks or evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks for creative workflows, or large-scale video data infrastructure.
Tools
Python, PyTorch
AI focus
Evaluates and improves image and video generation models and agents; develops multimodal evaluation methods and agents for creative workflows.
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