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San Jose
Team:
Technology
Employment Type:
Intern
Job Code:
A112542A
Team Introduction:
The EE Platform team focuses on silicon and EE architecture for AR/VR platforms to optimize the system power, latency and performance. The team innovates on customized silicon solutions for imaging, display and connectivity with HW/SW co-optimization.
Topic Content:
The rapid advancement of AI Agents is set to have a far-reaching and transformative impact on daily life. As the hardware bridge linking AI Agents to the physical world and end users, intelligent hardware acts as a vital gateway for agents to perceive their environment and recognize user intent. Enabling AI Agents to maintain round-the-clock environmental awareness and efficiently capture real-time user intentions is essential to improving their everyday service experience. This topic seeks to overcome the limitations of conventional visual perception systems. By deeply integrating sensing and computing, it explores full-stack innovation spanning from low-level hardware to high-level algorithms. Key efforts include developing next-generation sensors with real-time understanding capabilities, investigating non-traditional visual capture and compression techniques, and designing novel hardware architectures to run advanced algorithms—enabling highly efficient coordination across sensing, processing, and communication.
Topic Challenge:
Break free from the framework of conventional sensing systems, explore novel sensors, signal processing and compression schemes to achieve highly energy-efficient sensing tasks, while enabling seamless integration with large models.
Topic Value:
Breakthroughs in this research direction will enable intelligent hardware to better connect AI, users, and daily life. Against the backdrop of the AI Agent era, this will unlock the gateway to the next generation of intelligent hardware terminals and open up broader technological possibilities.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. PhD Internships at our Company aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.
PhD internships at Our Company 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:
- Innovate and develop a power-efficient, low-latency, highly-intelligent all-day machine perception vision system.
- Develop necessary training, data collection/generation pipeline along with state of art ML algorithm/framework for understanding of the scene and user behaviors.
- Map the cutting edge ML algorithm to the HW accelerator, identify performance bottleneck, optimize performance and efficiency, propose more efficient HW/SW co-design for AI accelerator.
- Collaborate with the x-functions team and translate system requirements into a proper cloud-edge workload partition and edge ML accelerator HW/SW requirement.
- Perform quantitative evaluations through the use of system modeling and influence sensor, soc and software co-design.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently Pursuing PhD in the fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics and related technical discipline.
- Experience in research in the fields of computer vision, edge ML perception algorithm and/or related AI accelerator design.
- Experience with programming tools and languages such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with appropriate ML frameworks and model deployment.
- Familiar with image sensor and isp.
- Good track record on top-tier conference or journal publication.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern
The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60 - $60.
Benefits 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). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified 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:
-
Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
-
Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
-
Exercising sound judgment.
About Pico
Founded in April 2015, Pico is a VR company committed to developing immersive and interactive VR experiences for people around the world. Pico also provides tailor-made solutions for our enterprise clients in the fields of education and healthcare.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Location:
San Jose
Team:
Technology
Employment Type:
Intern
Job Code:
A112542A
Team Introduction:
The EE Platform team focuses on silicon and EE architecture for AR/VR platforms to optimize the system power, latency and performance. The team innovates on customized silicon solutions for imaging, display and connectivity with HW/SW co-optimization.
Topic Content:
The rapid advancement of AI Agents is set to have a far-reaching and transformative impact on daily life. As the hardware bridge linking AI Agents to the physical world and end users, intelligent hardware acts as a vital gateway for agents to perceive their environment and recognize user intent. Enabling AI Agents to maintain round-the-clock environmental awareness and efficiently capture real-time user intentions is essential to improving their everyday service experience. This topic seeks to overcome the limitations of conventional visual perception systems. By deeply integrating sensing and computing, it explores full-stack innovation spanning from low-level hardware to high-level algorithms. Key efforts include developing next-generation sensors with real-time understanding capabilities, investigating non-traditional visual capture and compression techniques, and designing novel hardware architectures to run advanced algorithms—enabling highly efficient coordination across sensing, processing, and communication.
Topic Challenge:
Break free from the framework of conventional sensing systems, explore novel sensors, signal processing and compression schemes to achieve highly energy-efficient sensing tasks, while enabling seamless integration with large models.
Topic Value:
Breakthroughs in this research direction will enable intelligent hardware to better connect AI, users, and daily life. Against the backdrop of the AI Agent era, this will unlock the gateway to the next generation of intelligent hardware terminals and open up broader technological possibilities.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. PhD Internships at our Company aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.
PhD internships at Our Company 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:
- Innovate and develop a power-efficient, low-latency, highly-intelligent all-day machine perception vision system.
- Develop necessary training, data collection/generation pipeline along with state of art ML algorithm/framework for understanding of the scene and user behaviors.
- Map the cutting edge ML algorithm to the HW accelerator, identify performance bottleneck, optimize performance and efficiency, propose more efficient HW/SW co-design for AI accelerator.
- Collaborate with the x-functions team and translate system requirements into a proper cloud-edge workload partition and edge ML accelerator HW/SW requirement.
- Perform quantitative evaluations through the use of system modeling and influence sensor, soc and software co-design.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently Pursuing PhD in the fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics and related technical discipline.
- Experience in research in the fields of computer vision, edge ML perception algorithm and/or related AI accelerator design.
- Experience with programming tools and languages such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with appropriate ML frameworks and model deployment.
- Familiar with image sensor and isp.
- Good track record on top-tier conference or journal publication.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern
The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60 - $60.
Benefits 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). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified 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:
-
Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
-
Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
-
Exercising sound judgment.
About Pico
Founded in April 2015, Pico is a VR company committed to developing immersive and interactive VR experiences for people around the world. Pico also provides tailor-made solutions for our enterprise clients in the fields of education and healthcare.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
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Align your portfolio to ByteDance's ML stack
ByteDance's data science internships heavily involve recommendation systems, A/B testing, and large-scale data pipelines. Projects using TikTok-style ranking models or experimentation frameworks will resonate more with recruiters than general analytics work.
Target roles explicitly flagged for sponsorship
Not every internship listing at ByteDance leads to visa sponsorship. Filter for positions where sponsorship is confirmed before applying. Migrate Mate lets you browse Data Science Intern roles at ByteDance that are specifically tied to their sponsorship track record.
Time your OPT start date strategically
If you're on F-1 and using OPT for this internship, your 12-month OPT clock starts on the date you choose, not your start date. Delaying activation until your internship begins preserves authorization time for a full-time role afterward.
Understand how ByteDance structures intern-to-full-time conversion
ByteDance converts strong interns into full-time hires, where H-1B sponsorship typically begins. Asking your recruiter directly about the conversion pipeline during the offer stage tells you whether this internship is a genuine visa sponsorship pathway.
Verify your work authorization documents before day one
ByteDance uses E-Verify, so your I-9 documentation must be in order on your first day. If you're on OPT, confirm your EAD card has arrived and that the start date on your EAD matches your employment start date exactly.
Prepare for a multi-round technical process
ByteDance's data science intern interviews typically include a coding screen, a statistics and probability round, and a product or business case component. Preparing for all three, not just LeetCode-style questions, materially improves your chances of reaching the offer stage.
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Does ByteDance sponsor H-1B visas for Data Science Interns?
Yes, ByteDance sponsors H-1B visas, and Data Science is one of the technical functions where they have a consistent sponsorship history. Sponsorship for interns typically applies when the role converts to a full-time position, since H-1B status requires full-time employment. If you're interning on OPT, ByteDance would file an H-1B petition for a subsequent full-time offer.
Which visa types does ByteDance commonly sponsor for Data Science Intern roles?
ByteDance sponsors H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 visas for technical roles, along with immigrant visa pathways including EB-2 and EB-3 for full-time employees. For interns specifically, F-1 OPT is the most common work authorization. H-1B1 is available to Singaporean and Chilean nationals, and E-3 applies to Australian citizens, both of which bypass the H-1B lottery entirely.
How do I apply for Data Science Intern jobs at ByteDance?
Applications go through ByteDance's careers portal, where listings are posted by team and location. Roles on the ads, recommendation, and product analytics teams are the most common entry points for data science interns. You can also browse Data Science Intern openings at ByteDance that are confirmed for visa sponsorship directly on Migrate Mate, which filters listings by sponsorship eligibility.
What qualifications does ByteDance expect for a Data Science Intern?
Most ByteDance data science intern roles expect graduate-level coursework or equivalent experience in statistics, machine learning, or a quantitative field. Strong SQL, Python, and hands-on experience with experimentation or model development are standard expectations. Teams working on recommendation or ads products also look for candidates familiar with ranking models and large-scale data infrastructure.
How do I time my application to account for visa processing if I want to convert to full-time?
If you're interning on OPT and targeting a full-time offer, ByteDance would need to file your H-1B petition in early April for an October 1 start, given the USCIS cap-subject lottery cycle. That means a full-time offer needs to come through by March at the latest. Cap-exempt H-1B1 and E-3 filings don't follow this cycle and can be filed year-round.
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