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Senior Research Scientist

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Senior Research Scientist in USA

  • ByteDance
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Jose, CA

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, validate, and operate major components of a Physical AI platform.
  • Develop scalable infrastructure for training and serving multimodal and robotics models, including vision-language-action models, world models, and robot policies.
  • Translate research ideas into production-ready capabilities with reliability, performance, and quality targets.
  • Lead technical design for complex projects and balance performance, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
  • Drive projects through production adoption and collaborate with adjacent teams.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to shared architecture and engineering standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of software engineering, machine learning systems, robotics, or related industry experience.
  • Strong software and systems engineering fundamentals, including production-scale distributed or data-intensive systems.
  • Deep expertise in robotic learning, AI training and inference infrastructure, or robotics data and simulation systems.
  • Preferred experience contributing to open-source projects such as Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Cosmos, vLLM-Omni, SGLang Omni, or RLInf.
  • Preferred experience building large-scale AI or robotics platforms for multiple teams or external customers, or working with real-world robot systems and operational challenges.

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...

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