Student Researcher [Seed - Multimodal Interaction & World Model - RL Focused] - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

The Seed Multimodal Interaction and World Model team is dedicated to developing models that boast human-level multimodal understanding and interaction capabilities. The team also aspires to advance the exploration and development of multimodal assistant products.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reinforcement learning (RL) training systems for large-scale multimodal foundation models
• Develop unified modeling frameworks that integrate video, audio, and language, with a focus on visual latent reasoning
• Explore RL-based approaches to bridge understanding and generation for multimodal visual reasoning
• Collaborate with researchers to evaluate models on tasks involving world modeling, reasoning, and instruction-conditioned generation

What This Job Offers

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