Student Researcher - (Seed Model - Seed Responsible AI) - 2027 Start (PhD)
ByteDance · San Jose, CA · 1 mo ago
Training$85/hrInternship
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the team? Actually headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content: About the team (maybe About the role). Responsibilities listed. Qualifications (minimum qualifications). Benefits: description of benefits (health insurance, holidays, sick time, housing allowance). Pay: compensation description hourly rate $85- $85 (actually $85- $85 seems weird but it's a range? It says $85- $85. Probably it's $85 per hour. We'll include Pay section with that. Schedule: not mentioned. So we omit Schedule. Skills: maybe not explicit separate; qualifications include skills. Could combine Qualifications and Skills? But we have Qualifications section; we could also have Skills if present. The posting mentions "Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python". That's skill. Could put under Skills. But we already have Qualifications covering that. To avoid duplication, we could put skill details under Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which sections to include based on content. We have About the team (maybe About the role). Responsibilities present. Qualifications present. Benefits present. Pay present. Skills maybe not separate; we could omit Skills if not distinct. Requirements maybe same as Qualifications? The posting has "Minimum Qualifications:" and also "As a condition of employment...". Could treat as Requirements. But we already have Qualifications. Could include Requirements as same content? Better to follow typical: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Also About the team as About the role. We'll omit Requirements and Skills if not distinct.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, etc. Also remove duplicated lines, navigation, cookie, etc. Also remove application instructions like "Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date)." That's application instruction; should be removed. Also remove "Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis..." that's also instruction. Remove.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So keep details about team, responsibilities, qualifications, benefits, pay.
Let's extract substantive content:
About the team: "The Seed-Responsible AI team promotes safe and sustainable AI by researching its core mechanisms to provide insights and practical guidance. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts."
That's About the team; we can use heading About the role.
Responsibilities: list:
- Developing advanced technologies in AI, particularly AI foundation models and AI agents;
- Conducting research on the technologies of AI to make them more reliable, safe, and trustworthy;
- Contributing to the development of products in the company with regards to AI safety and AI ethics.
Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong research background in at least one of the areas: large language model (LLM) training, LLM interpretability, LLM agents, reinforcement learning, or LLM / AI agent safety.
- Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, IOI, TopCoder etc. are preferred;
- Experience with influential projects or papers in ML, NLP, LLM, is preferred;
- Excellent problem analysis and solving skills.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
- 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.
Benefits:
- 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.
- 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: Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues; Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and Exercising sound judgment.
That's a lot; but it's substantive. We'll keep.
Pay:
- Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $85- $85.
We'll phrase as "$85 per hour". Keep as given.
We should not include sections like About Doubao (Seed) etc? That's about the team maybe but could be considered About the role? It's substantive about the team's work. Could include under About the role as additional paragraph. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information. So we should include that description about Doubao (Seed) and Why Join ByteDance etc. Those are also substantive. However they might be considered boilerplate? They are about company mission etc. Might be considered generic but still substantive. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "About Doubao (Seed)" etc is not boilerplate; it's about the team. So we should keep it.
Thus About the role section can include multiple paragraphs: about team, about Doubao (Seed), Why Join ByteDance, Diversity & Inclusion, Reasonable Accommodation? Reasonable Accommodation is also substantive but maybe considered legal? It's about accommodation; could be considered EEO? It's about providing accommodations; might be considered EEO/legal. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. Reasonable Accommodation might be considered EEO-related. Safer to remove it. Also Diversity & Inclusion maybe also EEO-related; but it's about company commitment; could be considered boilerplate? Might be okay to keep? The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. Diversity & Inclusion is related to EEO; likely considered boilerplate. Safer to remove Diversity & Inclusion and Reasonable Accommodation sections.
Also "Why Join ByteDance" is motivational; could be kept as substantive about company culture. Not explicitly EEO. Keep.
Thus About the role will contain paragraphs: The Seed-Responsible AI team..., PhD internships..., dynamic internship..., About Doubao (Seed)..., Why Join ByteDance...
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We should not include Schedule. Make sure to preserve all details exactly as given, but we can rephrase slightly? Must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep the exact details, but we can keep them as sentences. We'll copy the text. Let's craft. About the role paragraphs: Paragraph1: "The Seed-Responsible AI team promotes safe and sustainable AI by researching its core mechanisms to provide insights and practical guidance. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts." Paragraph2: "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. With a long-term vision for the AI sector, the Seed team's research spans MLLM, GenMedia, 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 BytePlus. 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." Paragraph3: "Why Join ByteDance Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us." We'll keep as is. Responsibilities list: three items exactly as given. Qualifications list: we need to include each bullet. Let's list: - Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field. - Strong research background in at least one of the areas: large language model (LLM) training, LLM interpretability, LLM agents, reinforcement learning, or LLM / AI agent safety. - Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, IOI, TopCoder etc. are preferred; - Experience with influential projects or papers in ML, NLP, LLM, is preferred; - Excellent problem analysis and solving skills. - Good communication and collaboration skills. - 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. Note the punctuation; we keep as is. Benefits list: items: - 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
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