Tencent · 2 months ago
Research Internship- Multimodal LLM (Speech/Music/Audio/Vision/Language)
Bellevue, WA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$80K/yr - $120K/yr
Start in 2026Tencent is a leading internet company in China, and their AI Lab in the Seattle Area focuses on advancing AI technologies. They are seeking research interns to develop novel multimodal processing techniques and contribute to projects aimed at solving core AI challenges.
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Responsibilities
Work with researchers on a research project aimed at attacking one of the core problems by inventing cutting edge techniques
Encourage discussions and collaborations between researchers and interns
Publish the results from the internship
Develop more effective multimodal pretraining and post-training strategies for audio, speech, music, image, and video understanding and generation
Enable fully duplex conversations
Design more efficient large-model architectures
Enhance multimodal memory and reasoning capabilities
Advance novel audio, speech, music, image, and video processing techniques—such as encoding, tokenization, and representation learning—with a focus on multimodal applications and end-to-end large models
Qualification
Required
are Ph.D. students in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics or a related field
are self-motivated and excited about developing novel techniques
have research experiences in natural language processing, speech, audio, and music processing, computer vision, dialog system, or machine learning
have good publication track records and history of creativity and intellectual flexibility
can program skillfully in Python and/or C++ and have experiences in using one of the leading deep learning toolkits
Benefits
1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked
Up to 13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Eligible to enroll in the Company-sponsored medical plan
Company
Tencent
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services.
Founded in 1998
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$13.84BKey Investors
Lippo Group
2025-09-16Post Ipo Debt· $1.27B
2020-05-29Post Ipo Debt· $6B
2019-08-29Post Ipo Debt· $6.5B
Leadership Team
Dowson Tong
CEO of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industries Group (CSIG)
James Mitchell
Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Executive Vice President
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