Established in 2023, the ByteDance Doubao (Seed) Team

The ByteDance Doubao (Seed) Team is dedicated to building industry-leading AI foundation models. We aim to do world-leading 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 has labs and researcher roles 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. In the Chinese market, Doubao models power over 50 ByteDance apps and business lines, including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, and was launched to external enterprise clients through Volcano Engine. The Doubao app is the most used AIGC app in China.

Why Join Us

Creation 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.

Team Introduction

This position is responsible for researching and building the company's LLMs. The role involves exploring new applications and solutions for related technologies in areas such as search, recommendation, advertising, content creation, and customer service. The goal is to meet the increasing demand for intelligent interactions from users and to significantly enhance their lifestyle and communication in the future.

We are looking for talented individuals

to join us for a Student Researcher opportunity in 2024. Student Researcher opportunities at ByteDance aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Turn your ambitions into reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at ByteDance.

The Student Researcher position provides unique opportunities

that go beyond the constraints of our standard internship program, allowing for flexibility in duration, time commitment, and location of work. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities:

1. LLM reasoning and planning. Enhance LLM reasoning and planning throughout the entire development process, encompassing data acquisition, model evaluation, pretraining, SFT, reward modeling, and reinforcement learning, to bolster overall LLM performance.
2. Synthesize large-scale, high-quality data through methods such as rewriting, augmentation, and generation, to improve the abilities of LLMs in various stages (pretraining, SFT, RLHF).
3. Investigating and implementing robust evaluation methodologies to assess the performance of LLMs at various stages, unraveling the underlying mechanisms and sources of their abilities, and utilizing this understanding to drive model improvements.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, or related technical field.
2. Excellent knowledge of theory and practice of LLM and foundation model, as well as deep learning.
3. Strong publication record at leading conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML etc.).
4. Excellent coding ability, familiar with data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, winners of competitions such as ACM/ICPC, USACO/NOI/IOI, Top Coder, Kaggle, etc. are preferred;
5. Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduating December 2024 onwards with intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship.
• Demonstrated software engineering or natural language processing, deep learning experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications.
• High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities.

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. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

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