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Student Researcher [Seed LLM Horizon – Memory, Personalization & Evolving Agent] - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance
San Jose, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Feb 2026

About the role

About the team
The Seed LLM Horizon Team is dedicated to cutting-edge research, driven by a mission to push the boundaries of model intelligence, and fuelled by a long-term vision and unwavering commitment. The team is dedicated to developing the next-generation agent foundation model and building self-evolving、personalized Agent. We are seeking passionate and self-driven researchers who share our vision to collaborate on agent research.

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

Responsibilities
- Explore methodologies for evaluating personalized evolving agents.
- Study how to teach models to use memory, including learning to use memory via reinforcement learning.
- Investigate approaches for learning to evolve, focusing on making agents continuously stronger and more personalized through interacting with users and environments.

annually.

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ByteDance

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