Student Researcher
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Student Researcher (Seed LLM - Scientific Coding Agent (LLMs × Physics/Chemistry; RL preferred)) – 2026 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A87738 Responsibilities Benchmarking for scientific coding (core) – Design a principled benchmark suite spanning tasks with literature‑grounded coding and issues solving for existing codebase; curate tasks/datasets and write robust unit tests with compliance of scientific knowledge; implement evaluation metrics and build a clean, extensible evaluation pipeline with baselines. Language evolution for new scientific discovery (core) – Prototype loops where agents propose/refine scientific language and tie these to executable code & simulations; build workflows (multi‑agents, planning, tool‑use, self‑critique), integrate code execution sandboxes, retrieval, and experiment runners; compare LLMs and inference strategies, run ablations and produce clean research artifacts (plots, tables, write‑ups). Qualifications Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming Systems, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Applied Math, or related field. Strong Python and software engineering: Git, testing (pytest), packaging, comfort with Linux/containers. Working knowledge of LLMs (prompting, fine‑tuning or adapters, evaluation) and at least one ML framework (e.g., PyTorch). Solid foundations in physics and/or chemistry (e.g., classical/quantum/thermo/stat mechanics; physical chemistry, molecular modeling) and numerical methods (ODE/PDE, optimization, linear algebra). Preferred: Reinforcement Learning (PPO/DPO, reward modeling, curriculum learning). Job Information The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $65–$65. Benefits Interns have day‑one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, and 10 paid holidays per year. Paid sick time is 56 hours for those hired in the first half of the year, 40 hours for those hired in the second half, and interns who are not working 100 % remote may also be eligible for a housing allowance. EEO & Legal Notices 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. Reasonable Accommodation ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Student Researcher
3 weeks ago
San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Seed - LLM - Model) - 2026 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A45914 Responsibilities Participate in the research and development of cutting‑edge algorithms with the possibility of publishing top international papers, and applying for patents. Conduct in‑depth research for cutting‑edge...
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Student Researcher
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Seed Vision – AI Platform) – 2026 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A B Responsibilities The Seed Vision AI Platform team builds infrastructure and tooling to support large-scale training, evaluation, and deployment of vision foundation models. Our mission is to accelerate research and...
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Seed LLM Horizon – Multi-turn Tool Use) - 2026 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A A Share this listing: Responsibilities About the team The Seed LLM Horizon Team is dedicated to cutting‑edge research, driven by a mission to push the boundaries of model intelligence, and fuelled by a...
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Student Researcher
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Seed LLM Post Training – RNA Design & Scientific Reasoning) - 2026 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A Share this listing: Responsibilities The Seed LLM Post Training team is responsible for researching cutting‑edge post‑train technologies and providing core post‑train capabilities...
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Student Researcher
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Seed LLM - Code Generation) – 2026 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Intern Responsibilities Develop methods for code generation and editing using large language models, including improving performance on tasks such as synthesis, repair, documentation, and test generation. Conduct research on...
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Student Researcher
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - LLM Foundation Research)- 2025 Summer/Fall/Winter (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Machine learning Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A Responsibilities: LLM Post Training - Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Design advanced reinforcement learning algorithms for large language models by integrating technologies such...
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Student Researcher
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model - Vision Generative AI) - 2025 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A Responsibilities Conduct cutting‑edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning, especially in generative AI and data‑centric research. Solve unique, large‑scale,...
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Student Researcher
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Generative AI) - 2025 Summer/Fall/Winter (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Machine learning Employment Type: Intern Responsibilities Conduct cutting‑edge research and development in foundation model and multimodal machine learning, especially in the areas of generative AI (e.g. image, video generation). The primary...
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Student Researcher
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Machine Learning System) - 2025 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Machine learning Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A Responsibilities Research and develop our efficient machine learning systems, including efficient optimizers, parameters, and gradient efficient training with rank reduction and communication...
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Student Researcher
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San Jose, Philippines ByteDance Full timeStudent Researcher (Seed LLM Post Training – Reward Modeling) - 2026 Start (PhD) Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A Share this listing: Responsibilities Design and train reward models that reflect nuanced human preferences in LLM outputs. Develop and evaluate components of a Reward Model System that integrates model...
