Student Researcher - (Seed Model - Speech) – 2027 Start (PhD)

About the team

The mission of the Seed Speech team is to enrich interactive and creative processes through the application of multimodal speech technologies. The team focuses on the forefront of research and product development in speech and audio, music, natural language understanding, and multimodal deep learning.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. PhD internships at Our Company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, as well as to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.

Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume (Start date, End date).

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on speech foundation models and related systems.
• Explore methods to advance model capabilities in areas such as speech generation, speech understanding, and multimodal modeling involving speech, language, or vision.
• Design and prototype algorithms, models, or system components.
• Collaborate with the team to advance research directions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills and solid foundation in algorithms and data structures, proficient in Python or C/C++.
• Demonstrated research track record with publications in conferences related to speech, audio, multimodal learning, or machine learning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience related to speech generation, speech understanding, multimodal modeling, or representation learning.
• Strong problem-solving ability and experience conducting independent research.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a research environment.

As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States. For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship or any immigration-related benefits.