Student Researcher (Speech Foundation Model - Seed) – 2027 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on speech foundation models and related systems
• Explore methods to advance model capabilities in speech generation, speech understanding, and multimodal modeling involving speech, language, or vision
• Design and prototype algorithms, models, or system components
• Collaborate with the team to advance research directions

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Strong programming skills in Python or C/C++
• Solid foundation in algorithms and data structures
• Demonstrated research track record with publications in conferences related to speech, audio, multimodal learning, or machine learning

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience related to speech generation, speech understanding, multimodal modeling, or representation learning
• Strong problem-solving ability and experience conducting independent research
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a research environment

Benefits

• Day one access to health insurance and life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time
• Potential eligibility for housing allowance (for those not working 100% remote)

About the Company

ByteDance is a global technology company dedicated to inspiring creativity and enriching life. The ByteDance Seed team is pioneering new paths toward artificial general intelligence, with research spanning MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics. Our technology powers industry-leading applications and serves enterprise customers worldwide.