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Sony Electronics · 3 months ago

Research Intern – Multimodal Foundation Model for Vision

United States

Internship

Remote

Intern

$50/hr - $50/hr

Sony AI America is a research organization focused on using AI to enhance human creativity. They are seeking a Research Intern to develop methodologies and prototype solutions for next-generation foundation models for vision, working alongside a team of scientists and engineers.

Consumer Electronics

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Conduct fundamental and innovative development in low-cost yet powerful vision-language models (VLM), unified models, automatic model compression, optimization and deployement on cloud and edge

Design or implement state-of-the-art techs on model compression, inference speedup, deployement on harwares, tool automation

PoC for various vision+text, generation relevant tasks (VQA, captioning, understanding, etc) and hardwares

Contribute to library and tool development to support business; or Publish influential research in top-tier conferences and journals

Qualification

PythonPytorchFoundation model developmentFront-end developmentPresentation skillsCommunication skillsSelf-motivation

Required

Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a master/PhD degree in computer science or related field

Be very self-motivated and capable of proposing and implementing innovative ideas

Solid presentation and communication skills to internal and external audiences

Publications or expertise in compact foundation model development and deployment. Influential open-source projects or paper publication at top conferences, e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, etc

Solid coding skills in Python, Pytorch, etc

Preferred

Better to have front-end development experience

Company

Sony Electronics

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WE ARE SONY Our spirit of innovation and challenge has created those special moments that make people say ‘wow’.

Founded in 1946

San Diego - US | Tokyo - JP, US

10001+ employees

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