Research Scientist, Intelligent Editing (Multimodality)

Summary

ByteDance is a rapidly growing tech company focused on inspiring creativity and enriching life through innovative products. They are seeking a Research Scientist in Intelligent Editing to conduct cutting-edge research in computer vision and machine learning, transfer advanced technologies to products, and explore new AI-based products.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge research and development in computer vision and machine learning, especially in the areas of multi-modal understanding, vision and language, large-scale training, etc
• Transfer advanced technologies to ByteDance products
• Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core

Skills

• At least 1 year of research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision, including but not limited to:
• Experience in multimodal understanding, such as video highlight detection and slicing, audio/music understanding, etc
• Experience in vision and language, such as image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA, and other related fields
• Experience with language models and apply them in various downstream tasks, especially for intelligent editing
• Experience in large-scale training and RLHF
• Preferring candidates with publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python
• Work and collaborate well with team members
• Ability to work independently

Qualifications

Must Haves

• At least 1 year of research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision, including but not limited to:
• Experience in multimodal understanding, such as video highlight detection and slicing, audio/music understanding, etc
• Experience in vision and language, such as image/video captioning, retrieval, VQA, and other related fields
• Experience with language models and apply them in various downstream tasks, especially for intelligent editing
• Experience in large-scale training and RLHF

Nice to Haves

• Preferring candidates with publications in venues such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or ACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python
• Work and collaborate well with team members
• Ability to work independently

Benefits

• 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
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)