Research Scientist in Generative AI Graduate; Creation PhD

Position: Research Scientist in Generative AI Graduate (Intelligent Creation) - 2026 Start (PhD)
The Intelligent Creation Team is the AI, special effects, and audio-video creation technology team, responsible for the core technology and business development. It covers a variety of technical fields, including deep learning, computer vision, graphics, speech, shooting and editing, special effects, client and server engineering, and provides cutting-edge content understanding, content creation, interactive experience, and consumption capabilities and industry solutions to other business lines within the company and external partners in various forms.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with Byte Dance. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026.

Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. PhD:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Responsibilities - Conduct cutting-edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning, especially in the areas of generative AI (e.g. image, video, or 3d generation).

- Transfer advanced technologies to Tik Tok and other products;

- Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Final year Ph.D or recent Ph.D graduates in Computer Science or related engineering field.

- Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills - Highly competent in algorithms and programming;
Strong coding skills in Python/C++.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Multimodal generation, such as text-to-image/video/3D generation and editing, and other related multimodal experiences - Image generation, video generation, 3D generation;

- Diffusion model, GAN, transformer for generation tasks.

- Large-scale training, RLHF, and generative AI.

- Preferring candidates with publications in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia, etc At Byte Dance our benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:
We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care. Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off(PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.