Senior Research Scientist

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Senior Research Scientist in USA

ByteDance
Full time
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USA
09/25/2026
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Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

Own the design, implementation, validation, and operation of major Physical AI platform components.
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 defined reliability, performance, and quality targets.
Lead technical design for complex projects and drive production adoption.
Collaborate with adjacent teams, customers, researchers, open-source communities, and hardware partners.
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 experience designing, building, and operating 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 with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, world models, policy evaluation, distributed training, inference engines, GPU kernels, collective communication, synthetic data generation, simulation, data curation, or sim-to-real workflows.
Preferred contributions to relevant 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 used by 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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