Research Scientist, Foundation Model, Speech Understanding

at  ByteDance

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including Helo, Toutiao, and Douyin, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Founded in 2023, ByteDance Doubao Team is dedicated to crafting the industry’s most advanced LLMs. We aim to lead global research and foster both technological and social progress. With a long-term vision and a strong commitment to the AI field, the Team conducts research in a range of areas including natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), and speech recognition and generation. It boasts a robust international presence with labs and research facilities in China, Singapore, and the US. Leveraging substantial data and computing resources and through continued investment in these domains, our team has built a proprietary general-purpose model with multimodal capabilities. This model supports over 50 downstream business services including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, which are available to enterprise customers via the Volcano Engine. Currently, the Doubao App is the most used AIGC application in the China market.
Why Join Us
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.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That’s how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Join us.
Team Intro
The speech, audio and music intelligent (SAMI) team’s mission is to empower content understanding, interaction and creation across ByteDance and other products using speech & audio related technologies. We focus on cutting-edge R&D in areas like speech & audio, music processing, natural language understanding and multimodal deep learning. We are looking for top talents to work on these exciting technologies, integrate them into various ByteDance and other products and ultimately bring joy to our global user base!

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge research and development in speech/audio foundation models
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify key research areas and contribute to the development of innovative speech/audio models.
• Work with product development teams to integrate research findings into practical applications for ByteDance and other platforms.
• Collaborate on team-driven projects to address complex challenges and enhance the overall effectiveness of the research team.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Master’s or PhD in computer science, mathematics, engineering or related field

2. Experience in one or more areas of machine learning and deep learning, including but not limited to:

• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Translation
• Speech/audio self-supervised learning and foundation models
• Speaker recognition and verification
• Speech emotion recognition
• Multimodal foundation models
• Large Language Model pre-training and fine-tuning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Publications in top-tier ML/DL venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI and speech venues such as ICASSP, ASRU, Interspeech
• Deep understanding of Large Language models
• Familiar with distributed computing and large scale model training
• Familiar with deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and Pytorch.
• Familiar with engineering principles and best practices.
• Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, multi-functional environments
  ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
  ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT

• Conduct cutting-edge research and development in speech/audio foundation models
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify key research areas and contribute to the development of innovative speech/audio models.
• Work with product development teams to integrate research findings into practical applications for ByteDance and other platforms.
• Collaborate on team-driven projects to address complex challenges and enhance the overall effectiveness of the research team