Student Researcher [Seed Vision - Multimodal Interaction & World Model Pretraining] - 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. Employ pre-training and simulation technologies to model various environments of the virtual and physical world, providing foundational capabilities for multimodal interactive exploration. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. PhD Internships at ByteDance aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to research and engineering to advance world models and multimodal understanding, enhancing models' reasoning and generation capabilities.
• Design and prototype novel architectures that balance modeling performance, generalization, and efficiency.
• Help establish scaling laws and conduct systematic ablations to derive transferrable insights across model families and tasks.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees