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Research scientist, Foundation Model(LLM)

ByteDance
San Jose
Full-time

ResponsibilitiesAbout ByteDanceFounded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok and Helo as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join UsCreation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity;

to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together.

That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us. About The Team : Founded in 2023, ByteDance Doubao Team is dedicated to crafting the industry's most advanced LLMs.

We aim to lead global research and foster both technological and social progress. With a long-term vision and a strong commitment to the AI field, the Team conducts research in a range of areas including natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), and speech recognition and generation.

It boasts a robust international presence with labs and research facilities in China, Singapore, and the US. Leveraging substantial data and computing resources and through continued investment in these domains, our team has built a proprietary general-purpose model with multimodal capabilities.

This model supports over 50 downstream business services including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, which are available to enterprise customers via the Volcano Engine.

Currently, the Doubao App is the most used AIGC application in the China market. ResponsibilitiesThe main job directions include : 1.

Explore large-scale models and optimize systems to the extreme;2. Data construction, instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model optimization;

3. Implementation of relevant applications, including content generation, reasoning, code generation, etc.;4. In-depth research and exploration of more usage scenarios in future life.

QualificationsMinimum Qualifications1. Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C / C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM / ICPC, NOI / IOI, Top Coder, Kaggle, etc.

  • are preferred;2. Familiar with NLP, CV-related algorithms, technologies, and familiar with large-scale model training and RL algorithms are preferred;
  • 3. Candidates who have led influential projects or papers in the field of large-scale models are preferred;4. Excellent problem analysis and solving skills, able to deeply solve problems in large-scale model training and application;

5. Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress.

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.

Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life.

To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach.

We are passionate about this and hope you are too. ByteDance Inc. 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.

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