Internship - Research Intern, Speech & Language Processing

Apple

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Apple’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning organization (AIML) offers an internship focused on research in speech and language processing. The intern will work directly with Apple’s research team in Copenhagen, Denmark, on projects ranging from multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) to multilingual speech language models (SpeechLMs). The topic can be tailored to the candidate’s interests, with possible areas including language interference and cross-lingual transfer, how training-data composition affects multilingual generalization, low-resource languages and dialects, efficient adaptation and continual learning, self-supervised and multimodal learning, and interpretability of multilingual speech models.

The intern will collaborate with researchers, engineers, and program or project managers to design and implement a solution to a meaningful machine-learning problem. The internship offers technical mentorship and guidance, practical experience, and the opportunity to present work to AIML leadership. Where appropriate, the intern may submit work for publication at a suitable conference.

The internship lasts at least three months. Applicants must be enrolled in a PhD program and able to start no later than June 1, 2027.

Requirements

• Be enrolled as a student in a PhD program and be working toward a doctoral degree in computer science, engineering, data science, applied mathematics, cognitive science, computational linguistics, or an equivalent field.
• Be available to start no later than June 1, 2027.
• Have in-depth knowledge of deep learning and statistical machine learning.
• Have strong Python programming skills and experience with machine-learning libraries such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Have research experience in multilingual or cross-lingual speech and language processing, such as ASR, speech language models, or audio language models.
• Have a strong demonstrable record of publishing academic research in peer-reviewed ML venues, including language- and speech-specific venues.
• Be able to collaborate with others and deliver machine-learning technologies aligned with Apple’s stated values of quality, scientific rigor, innovation, and respect for user privacy.

Nice To Haves

• Experience training or fine-tuning large speech or language models.
• Experience with language interference, cross-lingual transfer, or low-resource languages and dialects.
• Interest in the interpretability and efficient adaptation of speech models.
• Interest in Speech and Language Processing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on multilingual speech and language processing, such as ASR and multilingual SpeechLMs.
• Work with Apple’s research team in Copenhagen on a topic that may be tailored to the candidate’s interests.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and program or project managers to design and implement a machine-learning solution.
• Present internship work to AIML leadership.
• Where appropriate, submit research work for publication at a suitable conference.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree