Research Intern - Self-evolving Multimodal Foundation Models



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Research Intern - Self-evolving Multimodal Foundation Models

Sony is seeking research interns to join us. Our team mainly focuses on fundamental and applied research, with a focus on building next-generation foundation models for vision in a responsible manner. The role of a research intern is to develop efficient and effective methodologies and prototype solutions. You will work with a productive team of world-class scientists and engineers to tackle the most challenging problems in foundation models, including self-evolving vision foundation models (VFM), vision-language models (VLM), unified models, content management, automatic model optimization and deployement on cloud and edge. You will see your ideas not only published in papers, but also improve the experience of billions of customers.


Roles and Responsibilities
  • Conduct fundamental and innovative development in low-cost yet powerful foundation models, automatic model optimization and deployement on cloud and edge.
  • Collaborate with research, engineering, and product teams to translate research into practical solutions, leveraging foundation models, RSI and agentic approaches where appropriate.
  • Contribute to library and tool development to support business; or Publish influential research in top-tier conferences and journals.

Required Qualifications and Skills
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Solid coding skills in Python, Pytorch, etc.

The target hourly rate for this internship is $50.00 per hour. The individual will be paid hourly and eligible for overtime.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.

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