Join us as we work together to inspire creativity and enrich life around the globe.
Responsibilities
We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2027. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2027. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Team Introduction: Our team provides end-to-end security solutions for ByteDance’s large language model (LLM) business lines. We identify and mitigate emerging risks across the entire lifecycle of model training, inference, and deployment, while also developing tools and systems to safeguard LLM assets and related applications. By advancing the deployment of AI security technologies in real-world business scenarios, we have built an industry-leading defense framework to support the safe evolution of artificial intelligence technologies. Topic Content: While agent-based applications are experiencing explosive growth, they have also introduced new security challenges. The expanded attack surface covering data, decision-making, execution, and supply chains, combined with their intricate interactions and complex infrastructure, has rendered traditional security technologies ineffective. This topic aims to systematically research adversarial testing and evaluation technologies for foundation models and agents in the Agentic AI era, as well as a full-link defense system based on foundation model trusted privacy computing, to ensure the safe and stable development of the company's business related to foundation models, including: 1. Attack-defense detection and evaluation methods, testing benchmarks, and toolchains for multimodal foundation models and agents; 2. Risk defense technologies and trustworthy runtime security assurance for agent-based applications; 3. Training and inference technologies for foundation models and samples, ensuring data and model asset security; 4. Secure construction, performance optimization, and of confidential training and inference infrastructure for foundation models.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Individuals who are completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in one or more of the following areas: LLMs, multimodal models, AI security, adversarial machine learning, trustworthy AI, or secure systems. - Solid foundation in LLM-related algorithms, with hands-on experience in model evaluation, deployment, or safety-related research. - Publications in top-tier conferences or journals such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CVPR, ICCV, or ECCV are a plus.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212800 - $450000 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have 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, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About Us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance 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://tinyurl.com/RA-request
