Neural Machine Translation 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.

We are seeking individuals passionate in areas such as LLMs, deep learning, natural language processing, machine learning, and reinforcement learning.

Key Responsibility:

Includes collaborating closely with research scientists and other team members to explore and advance Neural Machine Translation (NMT) research within the scope of the project, like translation of entertainment domain content in various Indian languages.

Work Location:

• Remote

Duration of the paid internship:

• 6 months starting fourth week of July 2025.
• 9:00 to 18:00 (Monday to Friday) fulltime.

Essential Education:

• Ph.D. or Masters in Computer Science background or Bachelor’s with hands-on experience on Python with an applications in Language Processing.

Must Have Skills:

• Background on Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Excellent coding skills, especially in Python and PyTorch
• Knowledge of the state-of-the-arts in LLM, Foundation Models, Neural Machine Translation.

Good to Have Skills:

• Experience in Indian Language Machine Translation
• Strong mathematical aptitude
• Papers in top-tier conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL, NAACL OR EMNLP etc.

Our Values:

• Dreams & Curiosity: Pioneer the future with dreams and curiosity.
• Diversity: Pursue the creation of the very best by harnessing diversity and varying viewpoints.
• Integrity & Sincerity: Earn the trust for Sony brand through ethical and responsible conduct.
• Sustainability: Fulfil our stakeholder responsibilities through disciplined business practices.

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.