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Research Scientist Intern (Video Quality Analysis & Coding Strategy) - 2027 Start (PhD)

ByteDance
San Jose, Costa RicainternshipVerifiedPosted 6 Aug 2026
💰 $316,800/yr($122,574/yr$316,800/yr)

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About the team<br/>Our team designs and optimizes the next-generation end-to-end video system (for video production, processing, delivery, and consumption) to improve the quality of experience (QoE) for our billions of users. We are looking for strong video algorithm engineers from all areas of video understanding, video processing, video coding, video streaming, and video quality assessment, etc., who have a dedication to technical excellence and a passion to build large-scale and high-performing video platforms and services.<br/><br/>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.<br/>Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.<br/>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).<br/><br/>Responsibilities:<br/>- Research and develop algorithms for end-to-end video quality optimization, combining video analysis, processing, and encoding techniques.<br/>- Explore and prototype solutions for video-on-demand (VOD) and live streaming scenarios, including monitoring, data analysis, and objective quality evaluation.<br/>- Support the design and validation of video algorithms through experiments, benchmarking, and data-driven analysis.<br/>- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate research 成果 into production workflows and evaluate impact through online or offline testing.<br/>- Contribute to advancing state-of-the-art technologies in video quality optimization and large-scale video systems.<br/><br/>The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $122574 - $316800annually. \u003cspan\u003e\u0026#8203;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px; text-align: left;\"\u003eBenefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year).\u003cspan\u003e\u0026#8203;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px; text-align: left;\"\u003eThe Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.\u003cspan\u003e\u0026#8203;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px; text-align: left;\"\u003eFor Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:\u003cspan\u003e\u0026#8203;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px; text-align: left;\"\u003eQualified 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:\u003cspan\u003e\u0026#8203;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px; text-align: left;\"\u003e1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;\u003cspan\u003e\u0026#8203;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px; text-align: left;\"\u003e2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and\u003cspan\u003e\u0026#8203;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px; text-align: left;\"\u003e3. Exercising sound judgment.\u003cspan\u003e\u0026#8203;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"])<div hidden="" id="S:1"><div><div><div><div id=""><div><div><div><div><div><h2>Research Scientist Intern (Video Quality Analysis &amp; Coding Strategy) - 2027 Start (PhD)</h2></div></div><div><div><div><p>Location:</p><p>San Jose</p></div><div><p>Team:</p><p>Technology</p></div><div><p>Employment Type:</p><p>Intern</p></div><div><p>Job Code:</p><p>A28638</p></div></div></div><div><div><a href="https://jobs.bytedance.com/en/resume/7670375041041320245/apply" target="_blank">Apply to this job</a><div><div>Share this listing:</div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=" target="_blank" tracking-value="LinkedIn"></a><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=" target="_blank" tracking-value="Twitter"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id=""><div><div><div><div><p>Responsibilities</p><p>About the team Our team designs and optimizes

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