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Research Scientist in Language Model; LLM; Seed - Graduates PhD) Seed Fou

Job in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95199, USA
Listing for: ByteDance
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-24
Job specializations:
  • Research/Development
    Data Scientist
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 254400 - 480000 USD Yearly USD 254400.00 480000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Research Scientist in Large Language Model (LLM) - Seed - Graduates - 2027 Start (PhD) Seed Fou[...]
Research Scientist Graduate (Seed Model - LLM) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Location:

San Jose

Team:

Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code:

A211879

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Responsibilities About the team

The Seed LLM team is dedicated to advancing the next generation of LLMs and solving fundamental challenges in LLM development. Our areas of focus include model pretraining, posttraining, inference, memory capabilities, learning, interpretability and other related directions. We dive deep into the latest technologies and create comprehensive solutions from concept to completion. In our endeavor to adopt LLMs in real-life scenarios, we explore methods to enhance applications through technological innovation.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

  • Explore large-scale models and optimize systems.
  • Data construction, instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model optimization.
  • Improving relevant model capabilities, such as reasoning, code, math, etc.
  • In-depth research and exploration of future use cases.
Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
  • Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, etc.
  • Experienced with large-scale model training, deep learning and machine learning algorithms.
  • Excellent problem analysis and solving skills, able to deeply solve problems in large-scale model training and application.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Candidates who have led influential projects or papers in the field of large-scale models are preferred.
  • Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress.
Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $254400 - $480000 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.

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. 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:

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