High-Performance Computing Research Scientist (Algorithm Acceleration)

6 Days ago • All levels • Research & Development • $199,500 PA - $340,100 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Doubao (Seed) Vision AI Platform team seeks a High-Performance Computing Research Scientist to accelerate text-to-image/video models. Responsibilities include developing algorithm acceleration technologies using knowledge distillation, model architecture redesign (MoE routing/sparse attention), and parameter-efficient design. The role also involves leading generative model innovation focusing on diffusion acceleration and autoregression model efficiency. Collaboration to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize vision models is crucial. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in diffusion models and experience in model compression, efficient architectures, or generative alignment.
Must have:
  • Algorithm acceleration expertise
  • Diffusion model expertise
  • Model compression/efficient architecture experience
  • Collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Kaggle achievements
  • ICML/NeurIPS/CVPR publications
  • Open-source contributions
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • Wellbeing benefits

Job Details

Responsibilities
About Doubao (Seed) 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 The Doubao (Seed) Vision AI Platform team focuses on the end-to-end infrastructure development and efficiency improvement for Seed vision-based large model development, including the data pipeline construction and training, evaluation data delivery, and full lifecycle efficiency enhancement for visual large models such as VLM, VGFM, and T2I. This also encompasses large-scale training stability and optimization for acceleration, as well as large model inference and multi-machine multi-card deployment. Responsibilities: 1. Develop algorithm acceleration technologies for text-to-image/text-to-video models through knowledge distillation, model architecture redesign (dynamic MoE routing/sparse attention), and parameter-efficient design (low-bit quantization) to achieve order-of-magnitude efficiency gains. 2. Lead generative model innovation with focus on diffusion acceleration (sampling step reduction/latent optimization), autoregression model efficiency. 3. Collaborate cross-functionally to identify performance bottlenecks, optimize vision models via algorithmic breakthroughs, and enhance ByteDance's product capabilities.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: 1. Bachelor's/Master's or above in Computer Science/EE/related fields. 2. Expertise in diffusion models (Stable Diffusion/DiT) with deep understanding of computational bottlenecks and optimization methodologies. 3. Proven experience in ≥1 domain: model compression (quantization/knowledge distillation), efficient architectures (MoE/sparse attention), generative alignment (RLHF/DPO); Preferred Qualifications: 1. Kaggle competition achievements, publications at ICML/NeurIPS/CVPR, or open-source contributions (e.g., HuggingFace Diffusers optimization). 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 $199500 - $340100 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.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

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

Social Discovery Group - Senior NLP Engineer

Social Discovery Group

(Remote)
2 Months ago
Match Group - Sr. Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Match Group

Palo Alto, California, United States (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
DNEG - Head of Machine Learning

DNEG

London, England, United Kingdom (Remote)
1 Month ago
NVIDIA - Research Scientist, Design Automation - New College Grad 2025

NVIDIA

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Zazz - Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Zazz

(Remote)
1 Month ago
Tencent - NLP Research Intern

Tencent

(On-Site)
2 Months ago
NVIDIA - Manager, Chip Design Verification

NVIDIA

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Imaging Systems Lead - Smart Wearable

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Tesla - Electrical Engineer, Motor Design - Optimus

Tesla

Athens, Greece (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Meta - Research Scientist Intern, Machine Perception for Input and Interaction (PhD)

Meta

Burlingame, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

ByteDance - Research Scientist Graduate (High-Performance Computing (Inference Optimization) - Vision AI Platform)

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
ByteDance - Senior Research Scientist- Foundation Model, Vision and Language

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
ByteDance - Software Engineer, Inference

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
ByteDance - Research Scientist Intern (Doubao (Seed) - Machine Learning System) - 2025 Summer (PhD)

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
DNEG - Head of Machine Learning

DNEG

London, England, United Kingdom (Remote)
5 Days ago
Krafton  - [AI] AI Engineer - NLP/Chatbot (3년 이상)

Krafton

Seoul, South Korea (On-Site)
4 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 - Student Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model - Speech Understanding) - 2025 Start (PhD)

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Riot Games - Staff Research Scientist - Tech Research

Riot Games

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Krafton  - Applied Research Engineer - Reinforcement Learning (Intern)

Krafton

Seoul, South Korea (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Seattle, Washington, United States

Next Level Business Services - SAP BW Developer

Next Level Business Services

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
eBay - Consignment Director, Historical

eBay

United States (Remote)
6 Months ago
Anavation - Data Scientist/Engineer

Anavation

Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
PlayStation Global - Senior Program Manager, Account & Identity

PlayStation Global

California, United States (On-Site)
6 Days ago
Onward Search - Project/Program Manager

Onward Search

Mercer Island, Washington, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Meta - Art Director

Meta

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Lead Software Engineer (Roku Engineer)

The Walt Disney Company

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Games For Love - Esports Streamer

Games For Love

Washington, United States (Remote)
6 Days ago
Dun & Bradstreet - 2025 Summer Internship Program - Technology

Dun & Bradstreet

Jacksonville, Florida, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Samsung Semiconductor - Senior Manager, Memory Sales AI

Samsung Semiconductor

San Jose, California, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Research & Development Jobs

NVIDIA - Senior System Software Architect, HPC Networking

NVIDIA

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
1 Month ago
NVIDIA - HPC Operations Manager – Hardware Engineering

NVIDIA

Westford, Massachusetts, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
NVIDIA - ASIC Design and STA Engineer

NVIDIA

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
NVIDIA - Senior CPU Implementation Methodology Engineer

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior Methodology Software Engineer

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
NVIDIA - Senior STA Engineer

NVIDIA

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Meta - Software Engineer (Leadership) - Machine Learning

Meta

Redmond, Washington, United States (Remote)
4 Months ago
Playtika - Java Technical Lead

Playtika

Romania (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Software Engineer, Platform

The Walt Disney Company

Emeryville, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
NVIDIA - Diagnostic Software Manager - Server

NVIDIA

Taipei City, Taiwan (On-Site)
1 Week ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Where imagination meets innovation, delivering limitless gaming experiences.

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

Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia (On-Site)

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

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

Singapore (On-Site)

Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines (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