Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd is hiring in the US for nearly 100 open roles within its artificial intelligence division, an effort to compete with the world’s leading US-based AI companies despite years of national security concerns from American lawmakers and regulators.
The positions, which are listed on ByteDance’s career page, are for Seed, its AI team which was established in 2023 and now has labs across the US, Singapore and China. The open roles highlight various job responsibilities, including "producing international data” for ByteDance’s large language models; advancing its popular text, image and video generation tools; doing research to develop human-like AI; and building science models to help the company pursue drug discovery and design, according to the postings.
