Research Scientist in Large Multimodal Models Applications - San Jose

About the role

ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life through its suite of products including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut, and platforms like Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua. This role involves contributing to the research and development of multimedia algorithms based on large multimodal models, optimizing and accelerating algorithm performance, and exploring their implementation in various multimedia applications.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the research and development of multimedia algorithms based on large multimodal models, including video understanding, quality assessment, video processing and enhancement, and video compression.
• Optimize and accelerate the performance of algorithms related to large multimodal models.
• Explore the implementation of large multimodal models in multimedia applications such as short video streaming, video transcoding, live streaming, etc.
• Conduct advanced academic research on large multimodal models and publish findings in international conferences and journals.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualification: Proficiency in Diffusion, LLM, and other advanced large multimodal models; experience with model training, tuning, and application.
• PREFERRED Qualification: Experience with NLP and RL algorithms, knowledge of models such as Transformer, BERT, and GPT, and a history of leading impactful projects in large multimodal models or publishing in conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc.).

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, ByteDance makes it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

ByteDance is committed to inspiring creativity and enriching life. Our innovative products help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect, and our global, diverse teams make this possible. We strive to do great things with great people, leading with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Together, we create value for our communities, enrich lives, and achieve meaningful breakthroughs.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (Annually): The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212,800 - $450,000 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).

Reasonable Accommodation

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