AI Vision Research Engineer Graduate (PICO) - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance is a leading technology company focused on inspiring creativity and enriching life through innovative products. They are seeking an AI Vision Research Engineer Graduate to innovate and develop machine perception vision systems for VR/AR products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and efficiency.

What you'll do:

• Innovate and develop a power-efficient, low-latency, highly-intelligent machine perception vision system in a VR/AR product
• Develop necessary training, data collection/generation pipeline along with state of art ML algorithm/framework for understanding of the scene and user behaviors
• Map the ML algorithm to the HW accelerator, identify performance bottleneck, optimize performance and efficiency, propose more efficient HW/SW co-design for AI accelerator
• Collaborate with the x-functions team and translate system requirements into a proper cloud-edge workload partition and edge ML accelerator HW/SW requirement
• Perform quantitative evaluations through the use of system modeling, FPGA prototyping for validating ideas and architecture options

What they're looking for:

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Experience in research experience in the fields of ML algorithm or AI accelerator design
• Experience with programming tools and languages such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python
• Familiar with appropriate ML frameworks
• Good communication skills, open minded and enthusiastic about new technologies

Benefits:

• 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)