Student Researcher [Seed Vision - World Models for Video Generation] - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance • San Jose, CA

100d

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. 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

• Develop world models that simulate physical, embodied, or abstract environments through video generation.
• Learn latent dynamics from video sequences that support controllable or goal-conditioned generation.
• Model spatial-temporal consistency, causality, and state transitions in realistic or synthetic video datasets.
• Explore integration of control signals (e.g., actions, prompts, scene graphs) into video generation pipelines.
• Build benchmarks and analysis tools to measure dynamics understanding and causal consistency.

What This Job Offers

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