Advanced Machine Learning Intern

Sony Research India is driving cutting-edge research and development in various locations around the globe, including laboratories in Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia. We endeavor to create new technology, products, and services while sustaining Sony Group’s diverse businesses in electronics, entertainment, and financial fields. For our research centre to blaze a trail in the latest technologies, we seek to foster the growth of a diverse pool of research and engineering talent and create a technology talent bank to drive research excellence worldwide. Sony Research India is offering outstanding career opportunities around frontline technologies such as AI and data analytics.

What we are looking for:

• A highly motivated Advanced machine learning research intern who can assist in our research and development efforts on

  domain adaptation, sparse/Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures

  , and

  LLM training/adaptation, with a focus on

  Neural Machine Translation (NMT) research

  .

  The ideal candidate should have prior experience in Deep Learning, Transformers for NMT/LLMs, domain adaptation and MoE design & training.

Key Responsibilities:

• Include collaborating closely with research scientists and other team members to explore and use advanced machine learning techniques in NMT within the scope of the project, like translation of Indian and foreign languages across various domains such as legal, entertainment, academic, etc. Interest or prior exposure to at least one of the following is desirable:
• Domain adaptation & Out-of-Distribution robustness
• Efficient adaptation of LLMs
• Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures
• Representation Learning

Work Location:

Remote within India

Duration of the paid internship:

• The paid internship will be for 6 months starting from first week of October 2025.
• The working hours are from 9:00 to 18:00 (Monday to Friday) full-time.

Essential Education:

• Ph.D. or Master’s with a Computer Science background or Bachelor’s with substantial hands-on Python experience applied to LLMs/ NLP.

Skills required:

Essential Skills:

• Excellent coding skills, especially in Python and PyTorch
• Knowledge of the state-of-the-art in LLMs/Foundation Models/NMT
• Basics of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
• Natural Language Processing

Good to have Skills:

• Strong mathematical aptitude
• Experience in domain adaptation techniques.
• Papers in top-tier conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, ACL, etc.

Our Values:

Dreams & Curiosity:

Diversity:

Integrity & Sincerity:

Sustainability:

Sony Research India is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures and to ensuring that no worker or potential worker will receive less favourable treatment due to any characteristic protected under applicable local laws.