Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning

Location:

Seattle

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A154205

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.

• Exploring and developing large‑scale language models and optimizing enterprise applications to the extreme
• Data construction, instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model optimization
• Implementation of relevant applications, including content generation, reasoning, code generation, etc.
• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to produce and apply new science to more responsibly develop and deploy large language models
• In‑depth research and exploration of more usage scenarios in future life

• Conduct research and develop state‑of‑the‑art algorithms in various applications of reinforcement learning
• Collaborate with software engineers and research scientists to build enterprise‑level platforms with cutting‑edge RL models
• Collaborate with open‑source communities or academia to advance AI development

• Experience in reinforcement learning or its applications to NLP, robotics, recommender systems, etc.
• Top‑tier conference papers, including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICRA, KDD, etc., relevant internship experience or winners of ACM competitions
• Proficient in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and Tensor Flow, and programming languages such as Python or Java

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177,688 - $341,734 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).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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
• Exercising sound judgment

Founded in 2023, the Byte Dance Doubao (Seed) Team is dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models. Our goal is to lead in cutting‑edge research and drive technological and societal advancements.

With a strong commitment to AI, our research areas span deep learning, reinforcement learning, Language, Vision, Audio, AI Infra and AI Safety. Our team has labs and research positions across China, Singapore, and the US.

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