ByteDance

Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Long-Range Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance  •  San Jose, CA (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

About the team
The Seed Vision Team focuses on foundational models for visual generation, developing multimodal generative models, and carrying out leading research and application development to solve fundamental computer vision challenges in GenAI. Researching and developing foundational models for visual generation (images and videos), ensuring high interactivity and controllability in visual generation, understanding patterns in videos, and exploring various visual-oriented tasks based on generative foundational models.

PhD internships at ByteDance provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).

Responsibilities
- Develop scalable architectures for long-range video generation with consistent motion, identity, and layout.
- Explore hierarchical or recurrent latent structures to support generation across long temporal spans.
- Address challenges in temporal drift, motion collapse, and high-frequency detail retention.
- Investigate autoregressive or chunked generation strategies that balance quality and memory.
- Design evaluation protocols for long video quality (e.g., realism, consistency, semantic continuity).

annually.
ByteDance

About ByteDance

ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok.

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. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users.

We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
China, CN
Year Founded
Unknown
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