Research Scientist in LLM Foundation Models (reasoning, planning & agent)

5 Months ago • All levels • Monetization • $224,000 PA - $560,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

ByteDance Doubao Team, founded in 2023, is dedicated to crafting the industry's most advanced LLMs. The team conducts research in NLP, CV, and speech recognition and generation. The role focuses on enhancing reasoning and planning capabilities in foundation models, synthesizing large-scale data, solving complex tasks through advanced decoding strategies, implementing robust evaluation methodologies, and teaching foundation models to use tools and interact with APIs. The ideal candidate will have research experience with RL, LLM, and CV, proficiency in data structures and algorithms, and experience with influential projects or papers in RL, NLP, or deep learning.
Must have:
  • Research experience with RL, LLM, CV
  • Proficiency in data structures, algorithms
  • Fluency in C/C++ or Python
  • Experience with influential projects or papers in RL, NLP, deep learning
  • Excellent problem analysis and solving skills
Good to have:
  • Winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, IOI, TopCoder
  • Good communication and collaboration skills
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
  • 75% premium coverage for dependents
  • Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match
  • Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans
  • Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO)
  • 10 paid sick days per year
  • 12 weeks of paid Parental leave
  • 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability
  • Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra
  • 401K company match
  • Gym and cellphone service reimbursements

Job Details

Responsibilities
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content. Why Join Us Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us. About The Team: Founded in 2023, ByteDance Doubao Team is dedicated to crafting the industry's most advanced LLMs. We aim to lead global research and foster both technological and social progress. With a long-term vision and a strong commitment to the AI field, the Team conducts research in a range of areas including natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), and speech recognition and generation. It boasts a robust international presence with labs and research facilities in China, Singapore, and the US. Leveraging substantial data and computing resources and through continued investment in these domains, our team has built a proprietary general-purpose model with multimodal capabilities. This model supports over 50 downstream business services including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, which are available to enterprise customers via the Volcano Engine. Currently, the Doubao App is the most used AIGC application in the China market. The vision of the team is to build a super intelligence system, accelerating society change in various areas such as natural sciences, economic production, and daily life, thereby enhancing the quality of life. The main areas of work include: 1. Reasoning and planning for foundation models. Enhance reasoning and planning throughout the entire development process, encompassing data acquisition, model evaluation,pretraining, SFT, reward modeling, and reinforcement learning, to bolster overall performance. 2. Synthesize large-scale, high-quality (multi-modal) data through methods such as rewriting, augmentation, and generation to improve the abilities of foundation models in various stages (pretraining, SFT, RLHF). 3. Solve complex tasks via system 2 thinking, leverage advanced decoding strategies such as MCTS, A*. 3. Investigate and implement robust evaluation methodologies to assess model performance at various stages, unravel the underlying mechanisms and sources of their abilities, and utilize this understanding to drive model improvements. 4. Teach foundation models to use tools, interact with APIs and code interpreters. Build agents and multi-agents to solve complex tasks.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: 1. Proficiency in research experience with RL, LLM, CV and familiarity with large-scale model training are preferred; 2. Proficiency in data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, fluency inC/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, IOI, TopCoder etc. are preferred; 3. Experience with influential projects or papers in RL, NLP, deep learning are preferred; 4. Excellent problem analysis and solving skills, able to deeply solve problems in large-scale model training and application; 5. Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress. --- ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too. ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $224000 - $560000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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