ByteDance Expands US AI Hiring for Seed Division

February 22, 2026
ByteDance is hiring up to 100 new employees for its Seed artificial intelligence division in the US, focusing on large language models, generative tools, and drug discovery research.

Chinese technology company ByteDance plans to hire up to 100 new employees in the United States for its Seed artificial intelligence division, according to Silicon Republic. The roles will be based in locations including San Jose, Los Angeles and Seattle.

The Seed division operates labs in the US, Singapore and China, and the new positions will focus on producing international data for large language models, advancing text, image and video generation tools, researching human-like AI, and developing models for drug discovery and design.

The hiring effort follows ByteDance's agreement with US regulators to establish a separate, non-Chinese-owned entity for TikTok's US operations, addressing long-standing national security concerns. Despite its social media reputation, ByteDance has become a major AI developer in China, offering products such as the Doubao chatbot, video-generation model Seedance 2.0, and image-generation model Seedream 5.0.

Earlier in February, the company said it would strengthen safeguards against intellectual property misuse after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter over alleged use of its assets in videos generated by Seedance 2.0.

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