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

ByteDance • San Jose, CA

86d

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

• Develop and evaluate unified modeling architectures for multimodal foundation models across vision, audio, and language
• Contribute to building a shared representation space that supports both generation and understanding tasks
• Explore architectural and optimization strategies to improve generalization across modalities and tasks
• Collaborate with researchers working on generation, reasoning, and world modeling to scale and adapt models for real-world scenarios

What This Job Offers

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