Student Researcher (Seed Vision – Long-Range Video Generation) – 2026 Start (PhD

Student Researcher (Seed Vision – Long-Range Video Generation) – 2026 Start (PhD)

Location:

San Jose

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Intern

Job Code: A161019

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 cont rollability in visual generation, understanding patterns in videos, and exploring various visual-oriented tasks based on generative foundational models.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop scalable architectures for long-range video generation with consistent motion, identity, and layout.
• Explore hierarchical or recurrent latent structures to support generation across long temporal spans.
• Address challenges in temporal drift, motion collapse, and high-frequency detail retention.
• Investigate autoregressive or chunked generation strategies that balance quality and memory.
• Design evaluation protocols for long video quality (e.g., realism, consistency, semantic continuity).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Research experience in generative modeling, especially for video, motion, or temporal sequences.
• First-author publications in CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML.
• Proficiency in deep learning frameworks and experience with large-scale video datasets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with diffusion or transformer-based video models, or long-context sequence generation.
• Familiarity with long-form video datasets.
• Understanding of perceptual metrics and user-study-based video evaluation.

As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States. For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship or any immigration-related benefits.

For Pay Transparency Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $85- $85.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

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

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

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.

Established in 2023, the Byte Dance Seed team is dedicated to pioneering new paths toward artificial general intelligence. We aspire to advance the frontier of intelligence to drive progress for both technology and society.

With a long-term vision for the AI sector, the Seed team's research spans MLLM, Gen Media, AI for Science, and Robotics. We maintain a global presence with laboratories and career opportunities across China, Singapore, and the United States. To date, we have launched industry-leading general foundation models and cutting-edge multimodal capabilities. Our technology powers over 50 application scenarios — including Doubao, Jimeng, TRAE, Dola and Dreamnia — and serves enterprise customers through Volcano Engine and Byte Plus.

Third-party data shows that the Doubao App ranks first in user volume in the Chinese market, while Doubao foundation models lead the industry in average daily token consumption.

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