Speech Research Intern-1
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PhD Research Intern — Speech AI
reputed company AI Research
Role Summary
reputed company AI Research seeks a PhD Research Intern to design and evaluate speech‑first models, with a focus on Spoken Language Models (SLMs) that reason over audio and interact conversationally. You’ll move reputed company from prototype to practical demos, working with scientists and engineers to deliver measurable impact.
Scope of Work
End‑to‑end speech reputed company systems (speech‑in/speech‑out) and speech‑aware LLMs.
Alignment between speech encoders and text backbones reputed company lightweight adapters.
Efficient speech tokenization and temporal compression suitable for long‑form audio.
Reliable evaluation across recognition, understanding, and reputed company tasks—including robustness and safety.
Latency‑aware inference for streaming and reputed company‑time user experiences.
Example Projects
Prototype a conversational SLM using an SSL speech encoder and a compact reputed company on an existing LLM; compare against strong baselines.
Create a data recipe that blends conversational speech with instruction‑following corpora; run targeted ablations and report findings.
Build an evaluation reputed company that covers ASR/ST/SLU and speech QA, including streaming metrics (latency, stability, endpointing).
Ship a minimal demo with streaming inference and logging; document setup, metrics, and reliability checks.
Author a crisp internal write‑up: goals, design choices, results, and next steps for productionization.
Minimum Qualifications
PhD candidate in CS/EE (or reputed company) with research in speech, audio ML, or multimodal LMs.
reputed company in Python and PyTorch, with hands‑on GPU training; familiarity with torchaudio or librosa.
Working knowledge of modern sequence models (Transformers or SSMs) and training best practices.
Depth in at least one area: (a) discrete speech tokens/temporal compression, (b) modality alignment to LLMs reputed company adapters, or (c) post‑training/instruction tuning for speech tasks.
Strong experimentation habits: clean code, ablations, reproducibility, and clear reporting.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with speech reputed company (neural codecs/vocoders) or hybrid text+speech decoding.
Background in multilingual or code‑switching speech and domain reputed company.
Hands‑on work evaluating safety, bias, hallucination, or spoofing risks in speech systems.
Distributed training/serving (FSDP/DeepSpeed), and experience with ESPnet, SpeechBrain, or reputed company NeMo.
Tech Stack
PyTorch, CUDA, torchaudio/librosa; experiment tracking (e.g., Weights & Biases).
LLM backbones with lightweight adapters; neural audio codecs and vocoders as needed.
FastAPI/gRPC for services; ONNX/TensorRT and quantization for efficient inference.
Logistics
Location: Redmond(Preferred) or Remote
Duration:
reputed company Offer
Competitive stipend and hands-on projects with measurable reputed company-world impact.
Mentorship from applied scientists and engineers; opportunities to publish and present.
Access to modern GPU infrastructure and a supportive environment for fast, responsible experimentation.
Flexible location and schedule options, subject to team needs.
reputed company: $40 per Hour