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Research Scientist, Intelligent Editing and AI Agent (Multimodality) Graduate (Intelligent Creation) -Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program -2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; completing or recently completed.
About the job
Conduct research and development on multimodal AI for intelligent content creation, including image and video generation, understanding, and agent capabilities.
What you'll do
- Research and develop computer vision and machine learning, including multimodal understanding, vision-language methods, and large-scale training.
- Explore AI-centered product ideas.
- Train and optimize multimodal models, improve image and video generation, and research agent tool-calling, long-horizon tasks, and agentic RL.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong coding skills in Python/C++.
- High competence in algorithms and programming.
- Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.
Nice to have
- Experience in multimodal understanding, vision and language, language models for downstream tasks, large-scale training, or RLHF.
- Publications at venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, or SIGGRAPH Asia.
Tools
Python, C++, Seed multimodal models, LLM, SFT/RL
AI focus
Applied generative AI research for multimodal content creation, including model training and post-training, image and video generation, multimodal understanding, and agentic AI.
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