Sony AI America is seeking research interns to develop efficient and effective methodologies and prototype solutions for building next-generation foundation models for vision in a responsible manner, to improve the experience of billions of customers.
Requirements
- Solid coding skills in Python, Pytorch, etc.
- 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.
- Better to have front-end development experience.
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a master/PhD degree in computer science or related field.
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.
Other
- 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.
- Location flexible (Tokyo, Europe , US)
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
