Research Scientist - Multimodal Interaction and Model - Pre-Training Technology - Compute

Research Scientist
- Multimodal Interaction and World Model
- Pre-Training

Location:

San Jose

About Seed Team:
Established in 2023, the Byte Dance Seed team is dedicated to discovering new approaches to general intelligence, and pursuing the edge of intelligence. Our research spans large language models, Gen Media, AI for Science, Robotics and more. With a long-term vision and determination in AI, the Byte Dance Seed team remains committed to foundational research. We aim to become a world‑class AI research team that drives real technological progress and delivers societal benefits.

With labs across China, Singapore, and the U.S., our team has already released industry‑leading general‑purpose large models and advanced multimodal capabilities, powering over 50 real‑world applications — including Doubao, Coze, and Jimeng.

• Drive research and engineering to advance models that enhance understanding of multimodal data and enlarge reasoning capabilities.
• Design novel architectures that optimize both the model's performance and efficiency.
• Establish scaling laws, design and conduct systematic ablations that result in transferrable conclusions.

• Expertise in Transformers (Dense and MoE) and familiar with how to scale Transformers on GPUs or TPUs.
• Rich hands‑on experience in PyTorch/JAX and distributed training framework.
• Familiar with state‑of‑the‑art techniques for preparing multimodal training data.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187,040 — $438,000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
3. Exercising sound judgment.

Founded in 2012, Byte Dance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including Tik Tok, Lemon8, Cap Cut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, Byte Dance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Inspiring creativity is at the core of Byte Dance’s mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life – a mission we work towards every day. As Byte Dancers, we strive to do great things with great people.

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