ByteDance’s Seed forms AI safety team and launches a global hiring drive

The new Model-Alignment & Preparedness department will start with ten researchers and report directly to Seed's leadership ByteDance has built itself an AI safety team. The company’s AI research division, Seed, has set up a dedicated department for safety, alignment, and risk management, and it is now recruiting researchers worldwide. The unit is called the Model-Alignment & Preparedness department. The announcement went out internally around October 13, 2026. Global recruitment followed soon after. The new department will start small. Seed plans to hire an initial group of ten researchers. The team will get access to resources comparable to those of Seed’s cutting-edge model development teams, with long-term investment planned. Yan Lin is leading the department. Lin reports directly to Wu Yonghui, the head of Seed.

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