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SonyAI · 1 day ago

Research Intern – Multimodal Foundation Model for Vision

positionUnited States
timeInternship
remoteRemote
seniorityIntern
money$50/hr - $50/hr

Sony AI America is a research organization focused on leveraging AI to enhance human creativity. The research intern will develop methodologies and prototype solutions for next-generation foundation models for vision, collaborating with scientists and engineers to solve complex challenges in the field.

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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 developmentSelf-motivatedPresentation skillsCommunication skills

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

SonyAI

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Sony AI is Sony's flagship AI organization whose mission is to "Unleash Human Imagination and Creativity with AI".
dateFounded in 2020
location
Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://ai.sony/

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Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

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