Research Internship- Multimodal LLM (Speech/Music/Audio/Vision/Language)

Tencent • Bellevue, WA

1d • $80,169 - $120,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Tencent AI Lab is dedicated to advancing cutting-edge AI technologies, with a particular focus on innovative breakthroughs in large foundation models. The lab's long-term ambition is to drive the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and ultimately, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). We are seeking research interns who are interested in developing novel speech/music/audio/vision/language processing techniques and large multimodal models for our Seattle area office located at Bellevue WA for the year 202 6 . Every research intern will work with researchers on a research project aimed at attacking one of the core problems by inventing cutting edge techniques. We encourage discussions and collaborations between researchers and interns. Interns are also encouraged to publish the results from the internship. Our projects span a wide range of areas, including developing more effective multimodal pretraining and post-training strategies for audio, speech, music, image, and video understanding and generation. We aim to enable fully duplex conversations, design more efficient large-model architectures, enhance multimodal memory and reasoning capabilities, and 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.

Requirements

• Ph.D. students in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics or a related field
• self-motivated and excited about developing novel techniques
• research experiences in natural language processing, speech, a u d i o , a n d m u s i c processing, c o m p u t e r v i s i o n , dialog system, or machine learning
• 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

• This position will be eligible for 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked and up to 13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, full-time interns are also eligible to enroll in the Company-sponsored medical plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees