Research Scientist in Code Generation Graduate (Seed-LLM) - 2026 Start (PhD)
About The Position
Established in 2023, the ByteDance Seed team is dedicated to discovering new approaches to general intelligence, and pursuing the edge of intelligence. Our research spans large language models, GenMedia, AI for Science, Robotics and more. With a long-term vision and determination in AI, the ByteDance Seed team remains committed to foundational research. We aim to become a world-class AI research team that drives real technological progress and delivers societal benefits. With labs across China, Singapore, and the U.S., our team has already released industry-leading general-purpose large models and advanced multimodal capabilities, powering over 50 real-world applications — including Doubao, Coze, and Jimeng. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at ByteDance. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
Requirements
- has research or technical backgrounds in LLM, code generation, large pre-trained models
- Candidates with pre-training foundation technologies, including efficient training and pretraining as a service
Nice To Haves
- Candidates with conference papers, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, KDD, etc., relevant internship experience or winners of ACM competitions
- Proficient in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, and programming languages such as Python or Java.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy state-of-the-art models in various downstream applications, especially code generation and autogpt applications;
- Collaborate with software engineers to build enterprise-level platforms with cutting-edge models;
- Collaborate with open-source communities or academia to advance AI development.
Benefits
- 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).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
