Multimodal AI Intern

<p>Sony Research India is driving cutting-edge research and development in various locations around the globe, including laboratories in Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia. We endeavor to create new technology, products, and services while sustaining Sony Group’s diverse businesses in electronics, entertainment, and financial fields. For our research Centre to blaze a trail in the latest technologies, we seek to foster the growth of a diverse pool of research and engineering talent and create a technology talent bank to drive research excellence worldwide. Sony Research India is offering outstanding career opportunities around frontline technologies such as AI and data analytics.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Job Purpose:</strong></p><p>Internships at Sony Research India (SRI) are aimed at offering students with an opportunity to industry exposure and a production level project experience. The primary responsibility in this role will be to positively contribute to the growth and development of innovative technologies at SRI. During the internship, you will work closely with research scientists and other members in the team on various development and optimization tasks in speech, audio, textual, linguistic, and visual signal analysis. In addition, you’ll be expected to actively work on AI development activities daily, be it training, testing, fixing bugs or other routines for building a robust model.</p><p>For this internship program, we are seeking a talented and motivated candidate who is pursuing or has completed <strong>MS/MSc/MTech/PhD </strong>level degree, to join us <strong>as soon as possible</strong>, for a duration of at least 6 months. <strong>For this internship program, we’re only going to consider candidates who have demonstrable skills and knowledge in Multimodal AI using audio, text and vision modality, with strong software development skills with PyTorch and Python.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Work Location:</strong></p><ul><li>Remote within India.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Duration of the internship:</strong></p><ul><li>The paid internship will be for 6 months ideally starting from August first week of 2026.</li><li>The working hours are from 9:00 IST to 18:00 IST (Monday to Friday) fulltime.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Essential Education / Qualifications / Experience</strong></p><p>Candidates pursuing or has completed <strong>MS/MSc/MTech/PhD </strong>level degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Data Science, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Applications or other closely related technical discipline, will be considered for the internship program.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Skills required:</strong></p><ol><li>Strong knowledge and relevant programming experience with Python, PyTorch, and Scikit-Learn and other ML and DL libraries, mainly for Multimodal AI tasks.</li><li>Demonstratable skills of successfully applying state-of-the-art machine learning and deep neural networks-based models to multimodal problems, including the combination of audio and video technologies.</li><li>Detailed understanding of all main network architectures, deployment modes, data augmentation and preparation, and theoretical performance analysis of model architectures.</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with knowledge of algorithms, signal processing, mathematics for machine learning, probability, statistics and linear algebra.</li><li>Excellent interpersonal skills with effective communication and presentation skills</li></ol><p><br></p><p><strong>Good to have Skills:</strong></p><ol><li>Demonstrate research capabilities through relevant publication record in leading journals and conferences.</li><li>Impact driven mindset and ability to work and learn in a collaborative and diverse environment.</li><li>Programming knowledge of using data structure and OOP concepts proficiently in Python, C and C++.</li><li>Programming experience with Scikit-Image, OpenCV with Python and MATLAB would be desirable.</li><li>Familiarity with Linux operating system.</li><li>Participation in Kaggle and other open-source grand challenge competitions.</li></ol><p><br></p><p><u>Our Values:</u></p><ul><li><strong>Dreams & Curiosity</strong>: Pioneer the future with dreams and curiosity.</li><li><strong>Diversity</strong>: Pursue the creation of the very best by harnessing diversity and varying viewpoints.</li><li><strong>Integrity & Sincerity</strong>: Earn the trust for Sony brand through ethical and responsible conduct.</li><li><strong>Sustainability</strong>: Fulfil our stakeholder responsibilities through disciplined business practices.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Sony Research India is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures and to ensuring that no worker or potential worker will receive less favourable treatment due to any characteristic protected under applicable local laws.</p>

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