ByteDance Seed Officially Launches 2026 Top Seed Big Model Top Talent on April 27thcampus recruitmentplan.
Previously, Top Seed opened the recruitment for research interns in March, and today it officially launches the recruitment for the 2026 academic year, with a plan to recruit about 30 top fresh PhDs. The research topics of this year's Top Seed include large language models, machine learning algorithms and systems, multimodal generation, multimodal understanding, speech, etc., which basically cover all areas of large model research.
It is worth mentioning that this year's Top Seed emphasizes that there is no restriction on professional background, and pays more attention to research potential, hoping to find young researchers with strong technical beliefs and enthusiasm, excellent research ability, curiosity and drive.
In addition to matching the return on research value, the Top Seed program will also give talents a first-class scientific research environment and full freedom to conduct research and exploration, encouraging non-conformity to established technologies and exploring intelligent upper limits, while relying on ByteDance's rich application scenarios, the results of the research will also have a broad space for landing.
According to 1AI understanding, byte jumping Top Seed talent program was launched in May last year, the project promotional video mentioned that "we expect to find the top 5% people in the field of large models, and do things that 95% people can not do".