Research Scientist, Foundation Model, Vision

Founded 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 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. About the team Welcome to the GAI-Vision team, where we lead the way in developing foundational models for multi-modal visual understanding and generation. Our mission is to solve the challenge of visual intelligence in AI. We conduct cutting-edge research on areas such as vision and language, large-scale vision models, and generative foundation models. Comprising experienced research scientists and engineers, our team is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of foundation model research and implementing our innovations across diverse application scenarios. We foster a feedback-driven environment to continuously enhance our foundation technologies. Come join us in shaping the future of AI and transforming the product experience for users worldwide. Responsibilities - Conduct research on computer vision, deep learning and AI, addressing a wide range of challenges in deep learning, computer vision, AIGC, graphics, large multi-modality models, diffusion models, video generation, 3D generation, video understanding, self-supervised learning, and autoregressive models. - Explore the application of large-scale/super-large-scale visual foundation models, and contribute to the development of new technologies and products leveraging artificial intelligence.

Minimum Qualifications: - Possess research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision, encompassing multimodal generation (e.g., text-to-image, image, video, 3D generation and editing), diffusion models, GANs, transformers for generation tasks, vision-language models, large-scale training and RLHF. - Hold a Ph.D. degree in computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, data science or related disciplines. Preferred Qualifications - Demonstrate impactful publications in leading AI conferences (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia) and journals (e.g., TPAMI, JMLR). - Proficiency in one of the differentiable programming frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, etc. - Possess coding skills in C/C++ and Python. - Proven track record of high-impact research. - Collaborate effectively with team members. - Ability to work independently. - Recognition with best paper awards or equivalent accolades in renowned conferences. - Achievement as a winner in international academic competitions.