Student Researcher [Seed Vision - Multimodal Video Generation] - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance • San Jose, CA

85d

About The Position

The Seed Vision Team focuses on foundational models for visual generation, developing multimodal generative models, and carrying out leading research and application development to solve fundamental computer vision challenges in GenAI. Researching and developing foundational models for visual generation (images and videos), ensuring high interactivity and controllability in visual generation, understanding patterns in videos, and exploring various visual-oriented tasks based on generative foundational models. 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. PhD internships at ByteDance 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

• Conduct research on multimodal video generation, with a focus on improving semantic alignment between inputs and generated content.
• Integrate vision-language models (e.g., CLIP, pre/post-trained VLMs) into video generation architectures to enhance input understanding.
• Explore and implement joint training or fine-tuning approaches that couple VLMs with video generation backbones.
• Evaluate model performance on tasks requiring high-level reasoning or detailed semantic control over generation.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to iterate on prototypes within an existing infrastructure.

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