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. Job Purpose: Internships at Sony Research India (SRI) are aimed at offering students with an opportunity to industry exposure and a production level project experience. The primary responsibility in this role will be to positively contribute to the growth and development of innovative technologies at SRI. During the internship, you will work closely with research scientists and other members in the team on various development and optimization tasks in speech, audio, textual, linguistic, and visual signal analysis. In addition, you’ll be expected to actively work on AI development activities daily, be it training, testing, fixing bugs or other routines for building a robust model. For this internship program, we are seeking a talented and motivated candidate who is pursuing or has completed MS/MSc/MTech/PhD level degree, to join us as soon as possible , for a duration of at least 6 months. For this internship program, we’re only going to consider candidates who have demonstrable skills and knowledge in Multimodal AI using speech, textual and vision modalities, with strong software development skills in PyTorch and Python. . Work Location: Remote. Duration of the internship: The paid internship will be for 6 months starting June second week of 2025. The working hours are from 9:00 to 18:00 (Monday to Friday) fulltime. Essential Education: Candidates pursuing or has completed MS/MSc/MTech/PhD level degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Data Science, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Applications or other closely related technical discipline, will be considered for the internship program. Skills required: Strong knowledge and relevant programming experience with Python, PyTorch, and Scikit-Learn and other ML and DL libraries, mainly for Multimodal AI tasks. Demonstratable skills of successfully applying state-of-the-art machine learning and deep neural networks-based models to multimodal problems, employing combination of audio, textual and visual data. Detailed understanding of all main network architectures, deployment modes, data augmentation and preparation, and theoretical performance analysis of model architectures. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with knowledge of algorithms, signal processing, mathematics for machine learning, probability, statistics and linear algebra. Excellent interpersonal skills with effective communication and presentation skills Good to have Skills: Demonstrate research capabilities through relevant publication record in leading journals and conferences. Impact driven mindset and ability to work and learn in a collaborative and diverse environment. Programming knowledge of using data structure and OOP concepts proficiently in Python, C and C++. Programming experience with Scikit-Image, OpenCV with Python and MATLAB would be desirable. Familiarity with Linux operating system. Participation in Kaggle and other open-source grand challenge competitions. 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. Show more Show less

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. 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 Bachelor’s 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. Show more Show less

Sony Research India is seeking a dynamic and motivated Speech Recognition Intern to join our innovative research team. As an intern, you will work on real-world problems in automatic speech recognition (ASR), focusing on improving noise robustness and reducing hallucinations in transcription outputs. You'll gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art tools and datasets, and contribute to impactful projects alongside experienced researchers and engineers. Key Responsibilities: Explore and develop techniques to enhance ASR robustness under noisy, low-resource, and domain-shifted conditions. Investigate hallucination phenomena in end-to-end ASR models (e.g., Whisper, Wav2Vec2, etc.) and propose mitigation strategies. Conduct experiments using large-scale speech datasets and evaluate ASR performance across varying noise levels and linguistic diversity. Contribute to publications, technical reports, or open-source tools as outcomes of the research. Work Location: Remote Duration of the paid Internship: This paid internship will be for a period of 6 months starting June first week of 2025. 9:00 to 18:00 (Monday to Friday). Qualification: Currently pursuing/completed Masters in (Research) or Ph.D. in deep learning/machine learning with hands-on experience on Transformer models with an applications audio/speech. Must Have Skills: Strong programming skills in Python, and familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow. Experience with speech processing libraries (e.g., Torchaudio, ESPnet, Hugging Face Transformers). Prior experience with ASR models like Wav2Vec2, Whisper, or RNN-T is a plus. Ability to read and implement academic papers. Strong foundation in machine learning and signal processing. Good to have skills: Familiarity with prompt tuning, contrastive learning, or multi-modal architectures. Experience with evaluating hallucinations or generating synthetic speech/audio perturbations. Show more Show less