Student Researcher Intern (Edge Research Project for General Intelligence - Doubao Foundation Model Team (Seed)) - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance • San Jose, CA

97d

About The Position

To further support long-horizon and high-impact AI research, we are launching the Seed Edge Research Initiative. This initiative focuses on developing general intelligence models - models that possess human-like learning abilities, interaction capabilities, and tool-use proficiency. We encourage bold, long-term research with inherent uncertainty and cross-modal, interdisciplinary collaboration. Seed Edge provides a highly flexible research environment and long-cycle evaluation, enabling researchers to pursue transformative AI challenges.

Responsibilities

• Explore novel intrinsic reward mechanisms to enable models to engage in autonomous learning and continual self-improvement
• Explore the development of long-term memory mechanisms to support the next generation of efficient reasoning models and long-sequence reasoning and modeling
• Advance the boundaries of multimodal perception by developing scalable methods to extract knowledge from massive multimodal data with ultra-low signal-to-noise ratios
• Study how models can use tools and develop visually grounded action capabilities, including new approaches to foundation modeling for full-modality agents and interactive learning in complex environments
• Bring self-initiated research ideas to help shape the future of general intelligence

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees