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Student Researcher - (Seed Model - Video) – 2026 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California, United StatesInternshipPosted Oct 10, 2026

Job description

About the team

The Seed Vision Team focuses on foundational models for visual generation, developing multimodal generative models, and carrying out leading research and application development to solve fundamental computer vision challenges in GenAI. Researching and developing foundational models for visual generation (images and videos), ensuring high interactivity and controllability in visual generation, understanding patterns in videos, and exploring various visual-oriented tasks based on generative foundational models.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date).

Responsibilities

  • Develop scalable architectures for long-range video generation with consistent motion, identity, and layout.
  • Explore hierarchical or recurrent latent structures to support generation across long temporal spans.
  • Address challenges in temporal drift, motion collapse, and high-frequency detail retention.
  • Investigate autoregressive or chunked generation strategies that balance quality and memory.
  • Design evaluation protocols for long video quality (e.g., realism, consistency, semantic continuity).

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field.
  • Research experience in generative modeling, especially for video, motion, or temporal sequences.
  • First-author publications in CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML.
  • Proficiency in deep learning frameworks and experience with large-scale video datasets.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with diffusion or transformer-based video models, or long-context sequence generation.
  • Familiarity with long-form video datasets.
  • Understanding of perceptual metrics and user-study-based video evaluation.

As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States. For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship or any immigration-related benefits.

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