Research Internship- Multimodal LLM (Speech/Music/Audio/Vision/Language)

Lightspeed Studios; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 80,169 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-sponsored medical plan

Paid sick leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Lightspeed Studios is excited to offer a Research Internship in Bellevue, Washington, focused on multimodal LLMs. Ideal candidates are Ph.D. students in areas like computer science or electrical engineering. Interns will engage in groundbreaking research projects, develop novel techniques in language and audio processing, and collaborate with experienced researchers.

The internship lasts for 3 months with a potential extension, offering a salary range of $80,169 to $120,000 annually, alongside generous sick leave and holiday benefits.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. students preferred with a strong focus on AI and related fields.
• Self-motivated and keen on developing innovative techniques.
• Experience in relevant research areas is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with researchers on innovative AI-related projects.
• Develop techniques in multimodal LLMs for audio, speech, and language.
• Encourage publication of research outcomes from the internship.

Skills

Natural language processing

Machine learning

Python programming

C++ programming

Creativity and flexibility

Education

Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or related field

Tools

Deep learning toolkits

Job description

Business Unit

About Tencent AI Lab at Seattle Area. Tencent is a leading internet company in China. Tencent AI Lab at Seattle Area was established in May2017. The lab strives to continuously improve AI's capability in perception, cognition, and creativity. Researchers there aim at solving challenging real‑world problems with advanced technologies and publish extensively at top conferences and journals.

What the Role Entails

Research Internship: Multimodal LLM (Speech/Music/Audio/Vision/Language). Tencent AI Lab is dedicated to advancing cutting‑edge AI technologies, with a particular focus on innovative breakthroughs in large foundation models. The lab's long‑term ambition is to drive the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and ultimately, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). We are seeking research interns who are interested in developing novel speech/music/audio/vision/language processing techniques and large multimodal models for our Seattle area office located at Bellevue, WA for the year2026.

Every research intern will work with researchers on a research project aimed at attacking one of the core problems by inventing cutting‑edge techniques. We encourage discussions and collaborations between researchers and interns. Interns are also encouraged to publish the results from the internship. Our projects span a wide range of areas, including developing more effective multimodal pretraining and post‑training strategies for audio, speech, music, image, and video understanding and generation. We aim to enable fully duplex conversations, design more efficient large‑model architectures, enhance multimodal memory and reasoning capabilities, and advance novel audio, speech, music, image, and video processing techniques—such as encoding, tokenization, and representation learning—with a focus on multimodal applications and end‑to‑end large models.

Internship Details

Intern duration: 3 months (with the possibility of extension). Can start any time in the year2026. Location: US‑Washington‑Bellevue.

The expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $80,169.00 to $120,000.14 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This position will be eligible for1hour of paid sick leave for every 30hours worked and up to13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, full‑time interns are also eligible to enroll in the company‑sponsored medical plan.

Requirements & Qualifications

• The ideal intern candidates are those who are Ph.D. students in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics or a related field.
• Self‑motivated and excited about developing novel techniques.
• Have research experiences in natural language processing, speech, audio, and music processing, computer vision, dialog system, or machine learning.
• Have good publication track records and history of creativity and intellectual flexibility.
• Can program skillfully in Python and/or C++ and have experiences in using one of the leading deep learning toolkits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.