Senior Research Scientist, Speech Foundation Models
ByteDance
San Jose, CA · Posted November 1, 2026
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About the job
...ByteDance Seed team in San Jose seeks a researcher to push speech and audio foundation models from theory to practice. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research into real-world features across ByteDance platforms. Ideal candidates...