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Student Researcher – Doubao – Seed – Foundation Model – Speech & Audio – 2025 Start – PhD

Student Researcher – Doubao – Seed – Foundation Model – Speech & Audio – 2025 Start – PhD

CompanyByteDance
LocationSeattle, WA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesPhD
Experience LevelEntry Level/New Grad

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, or related technical field.
  • Good knowledge of theoretical and empirical research in addressing research problems.
  • Solid knowledge and experience with at least one popular deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and familiarity with deep neural network architectures.
  • Good presentation and communication skills.
  • Experience in both neural and non-neural, classical machine learning models and algorithms.
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute cutting-edge research to ByteDance product evolution (e.g., TikTok, Douyin, CapCut) to impact billions of users worldwide.
  • Work on advanced science and technology in audio processing and generation (e.g., Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion, Audio Codec Learning, Audio Language Modeling, etc.).
  • Research, model, design, develop and evaluate novel machine learning models and algorithms.
  • Collaborate with globally based researchers and engineering teams in developing machine learning models and algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Research experience in one or more of the following fields: speech synthesis, audio generation, large language model, computer vision, generative models.
  • Strong first-author publications record in top AI conferences or journals(e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL etc.).
  • Proficient in C / C + +, Python, and shell programming languages, and have a deep understanding of data structure and algorithm design.
  • Internship experience in an AI research organization.