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 Groups 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.

Sony Research is seeking highly motivated and self-driven researchers with expertise in language model training for machine translation between Japanese, English, and Southeast Asian languages (Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, etc.).

Key Responsibility:

• Conduct cutting-edge research and publish results in top AI conferences or journals
• Collaborate with an international team (using English as the main working language)

Work Location:

• Remote

Duration of the paid internship:

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

Essential Education:

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

Must Have Skills & Abilities:

• Hands-on research in neural machine translation (NMT) and/or large language models (LLMs)
• Strong experimentation capability (accountability, agility, problem-solving skills, etc.)
• Passion about cutting-edge research
• Smooth English communication

Good to Have Skills:

• Japanese language and/or one of Southeast Asian languages is preferred.
• Knowledge and prior project experience in reinforcement learning is preferred.
• 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.