Research Engineer Graduate (Vision AI Platform - Seattle）- 2025 Start (BS/MS)

Bytedance • Seattle, WA

304d • $177,688 - $266,000

About The Position

Established in 2023, the ByteDance Doubao (Seed) Team is dedicated to building industry-leading AI foundation models. We aim to do world-leading 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 has labs and researcher roles 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. In the Chinese market, Doubao models power over 50 ByteDance apps and business lines, including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, and was launched to external enterprise clients through Volcano Engine. The Doubao app is the most used AIGC app in China.

Requirements

• Research and engineering experience in one or more areas of computer vision and natural language processing
• Work and collaborate well with team members
• Ability to work independently; Strong communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience in multi-modal understanding, vision and language, such as video captioning, VQA, Text-to-video retrieval, and other related topics
• Work with very large-scale datasets, and build very large-scale datasets to scale up foundation models
• Experience with language models and apply them in various downstream tasks
• Candidates with publications in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, EMNLP, ACL, COLING, etc.
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in Python and popular deep learning frameworks

Responsibilities

• Creating AI engineering infrastructure from end to end for large model development
• Training inference acceleration and deployment

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree