Research Scientist Graduates (Seed AI Foundation Model Infrastructure) - 2027 Start

About the team: The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies for AI foundation models. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable infrastructure for large-scale model training, evaluation, and inference.
• Optimize distributed training systems across compute, memory, and communication.
• Improve system reliability, efficiency, and observability for large-scale workloads.
• Develop frameworks for evaluation, data processing, and model lifecycle management.
• Co-design systems and algorithms to improve performance of foundation models.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's 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.
• Demonstrated interest or project experience in relevant areas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in distributed systems, machine learning systems, or related areas through internships is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $218,400 - $387,600 annually. Compensation may vary depending on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that may include additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units.

Benefits

• Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• 10 paid sick days per year.
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

About Doubao (Seed): Established in 2023, the ByteDance 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. Our research spans MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics, with a global presence across China, Singapore, and the United States. We have launched industry-leading general foundation models and cutting-edge multimodal capabilities powering over 50 application scenarios.