NLP & Speech AI Research Internship (PhD)

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks exceptional PhD students for a 2027 Applied Science Internship in Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies. You will work on NLP/NLU, LLMs, reinforcement learning with human feedback, conversational AI, and multimodal learning, contributing to production-scale research with state-of-the-art computing resources.

You will collaborate with global experts, publish findings, and develop scalable AI methods while thriving in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a PhD program.
• Relocation to internship base may be required.
• Experience in Python and, where applicable, C++ or Java.
• Experience in NLP/NLU, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, HITL, DL, Speech Recognition, Conversational AI, Multimodal Learning.

Responsibilities

• Develop novel, scalable algorithms for NLP and speech on production-scale data.
• Tackle challenging research problems, including LLMs, multilingual modeling, and information extraction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to communicate research findings clearly.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate research, while validating outputs.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

NLP

NLU

LLMs

Reinforcement Learning

HITL

Deep Learning

Speech Recognition

Conversational AI

Multimodal Learning

PyTorch

HuggingFace

Education

PhD student

Tools

PyTorch

HuggingFace

Speech frameworks

Audio processing frameworks

Job description

Amazon seeks exceptional PhD students for a 2027 Applied Science Internship in Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies. You will work on NLP/NLU, LLMs, reinforcement learning with human feedback, conversational AI, and multimodal learning, contributing to production-scale research with state-of-the-art computing resources.

You will collaborate with global experts, publish findings, and develop scalable AI methods while thriving in a fast-paced, innovative environment.