Student Researcher (Foundation Models - Reasoning, Planning & Agent - Doubao (Seed)) - 2025 Start (PhD)

6 Months ago • Upto 1 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Student Researcher position at ByteDance's Doubao (Seed) Team focuses on advancing the company's Large Language Models (LLMs) and foundation models. You'll contribute to research and development efforts in areas like reasoning, planning, data synthesis, and model evaluation. The role involves exploring new applications and solutions for LLMs in diverse domains such as search, recommendation, advertising, content creation, and customer service. This opportunity allows you to work on cutting-edge AI technologies and gain valuable industry experience while pursuing your PhD.
Must have:
  • Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, or related technical field.
  • Excellent knowledge of theory and practice of LLM and foundation model, as well as deep learning.
  • Strong publication record at leading conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML etc.).
  • Excellent coding ability, familiar with data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python.
Good to have:
  • Demonstrated software engineering or natural language processing, deep learning experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications.
  • High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities.
Perks:
  • Industry exposure and hands-on experience
  • Flexibility in duration, time commitment, and location of work
  • Full-Time intern medical insurance after 90 days
  • Paid holidays and paid sick leave
  • Mental and emotional health benefits through Employee Assistance Program
  • Mobile phone expense reimbursement

Job Details

Responsibilities
Founded in 2023, the ByteDance Doubao (Seed) Team, is dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models. Our goal is to lead in cutting-edge research and drive technological and societal advancements. With a strong commitment to AI, our research areas span deep learning, reinforcement learning, Language, Vision, Audio, AI Infra and AI Safety. Our team has labs and research positions across China, Singapore, and the US. Leveraging substantial data and computing resources and through continued investment in these domains, we have developed a proprietary general-purpose model with multimodal capabilities. In the Chinese market, Doubao models power over 50 ByteDance apps and business lines, including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, and is available to external enterprise clients via Volcano Engine. Today, the Doubao app stands as the most widely used AIGC application in China. 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. Team Introduction This position is responsible for researching and building the company's LLMs. The role involves exploring new applications and solutions for related technologies in areas such as search, recommendation, advertising, content creation, and customer service. The goal is to meet the increasing demand for intelligent interactions from users and to significantly enhance their lifestyle and communication in the future. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for a Student Researcher opportunity in 2025. Student Researcher opportunities at ByteDance aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Turn your ambitions into reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at ByteDance. The Student Researcher position provides unique opportunities that go beyond the constraints of our standard internship program, allowing for flexibility in duration, time commitment, and location of work. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Responsibilities: - 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. - 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). - Solve complex tasks via system 2 thinking, leverage advanced decoding strategies such as MCTS, A*. - 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. - Teach foundation models to use tools, interact with APIs and code interpreters. Build agents and multi-agents to solve complex tasks.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, or related technical field. - Excellent knowledge of theory and practice of LLM and foundation model, as well as deep learning. - Strong publication record at leading conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML etc.). - Excellent coding ability, familiar with data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, USACO/NOI/IOI, Top Coder, Kaggle, etc. are preferred; - Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress. Preferred Qualifications - Demonstrated software engineering or natural language processing, deep learning experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications. - High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities. 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 By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://jobs.bytedance.com/en/legal/privacy.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description Intern (hourly)

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60- $60. We cover 100% premium coverage for Full-Time intern medical insurance after 90 days from the date of hire. Medical coverage only, no dental or vision coverage.

Our time off and leave plans are: Paid holidays and paid sick leave. The sick leave entitlement is based on the time you join.

We also provide mental and emotional health benefits through our Employee Assistance Program and provide reimbursements for your mobile phone expense. 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.

Similar Jobs

Microsoft - Senior Data Scientist

Microsoft

(On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Google - Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning

Google

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
ByteDance - Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
ByteDance - Site Reliability Engineer, ML System

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Netflix - Machine Learning Intern, Fall 2025

Netflix

Los Gatos, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
NVIDIA - SDK Ethernet Software Team Manager

NVIDIA

Ra'anana, Center District, Israel (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Google - Hardware Engineer, Surface Science and Engineering, Quantum AI

Google

Goleta, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Starkflow - Specialist

Starkflow

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Google - Technical Program Manager, Silicon Engineer

Google

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
1 Week ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Epic Games - Machine Learning Engineer

Epic Games

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Meta - Research Scientist Intern, Smart Glasses in Wearables AI (PhD)

Meta

New York, New York, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Flutter Entertainment - Lead Data Scientist

Flutter Entertainment

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
ByteDance - Research Scientist Graduate (High-Performance Computing (Inference Optimization) - Vision AI Platform)

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Research Scientist Graduate (High-Performance Computing (Algorithm Acceleration)- Vision AI Platform)

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Meta - Research Scientist Intern, Smart Glasses in Wearables AI (PhD)

Meta

Redmond, Washington, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
ByteDance - Site Reliability Engineer, ML System

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
ByteDance - Seed - LLM Performance Operation Analyst (Non-safety)

ByteDance

Singapore (On-Site)
4 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior Software Engineer, RTL Optimization Tools

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
ByteDance - Student Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model) - 2025 Start (PhD)

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in San Jose, California, United States

Google - Principal Shopping Sales Specialist, Large Customer Sales

Google

Atlanta, Georgia, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Zoox - Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Robot Link Platform

Zoox

Foster City, California, United States (Hybrid)
6 Months ago
Netflix - Security Engineer (L4) - Application and Infrastructure Security

Netflix

United States (Remote)
2 Weeks ago
New York Times - Vertical Video Producer/Editor, Opinion

New York Times

New York, New York, United States (Hybrid)
1 Day ago
Nintendo - Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Nintendo

Redmond, Washington, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Google - Software Engineer III, Full Stack, Search

Google

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Google - Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, Labs

Google

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Days ago
Epic Games - Gameplay Systems Programmer, Fortnite

Epic Games

United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
ByteDance - Senior Research Engineer / Scientist - AI for Databases

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
2 Days ago
Netflix - Machine Learning Scientist (L5)

Netflix

United States (Remote)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Research & Development Jobs

Krafton  - HR Planning Specialist (5+ years experience)

Krafton

Seoul, South Korea (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Google - CPU Logic Design Engineer

Google

Haifa, Haifa District, Israel (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Tesla - Senior Concepts & Layouts Engineer

Tesla

Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (On-Site)
2 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior System ASIC Infrastructure and Methodology Design Engineer

NVIDIA

Shanghai, Shanghai, China (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
NVIDIA - Senior Malware Research Architect

NVIDIA

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Valeo - Management Controller

Valeo

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Google - CPU Design Manager, Hardware

Google

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
2 Days ago
Google - Senior Tensor Processing Unit Architect, Silicon

Google

New Taipei, New Taipei City, Taiwan (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Luxoft - Senior C++ Developer with Android experience

Luxoft

Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden (On-Site)
5 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Where imagination meets innovation, delivering limitless gaming experiences.

San Diego, California, United States (On-Site)

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (On-Site)

New York, New York, United States (On-Site)

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by ByteDance

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug