Intern / Contractor – Multimodal AI Research - Immediate Start

Position Summary

The AI team at Samsung Research UK is looking for interns to join our team at the Staines-upon-Thames office. The team undertakes projects involving the application of cutting-edge research into proof-of-concept and commercial products for Samsung devices and services. The prospective candidate will have the opportunity to be part of building next generation mobile devices from Samsung. The candidate will contribute to research towards pushing the boundary of audio-visual AI. The goal of the research is to enable new features and capabilities for Samsung’s flagship mobile devices. We encourage enthusiastic researchers with strong academic background and expertise in machine learning to apply. You will be poised to grow and expand your programming skills and expertise into a dynamic new set of research problems. This position will require you to work closely with researchers and engineers to enable and accelerate new research efforts for on-device AI.

The role would suit a PhD student looking for an internship or a PhD graduate who is looking for a 6 month contract.

The location is Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK. We operate a hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home weekly. It is an urgent requirement so we politely request that you only apply if you can start the job within 1 month of accepting it.

Role and Responsibilities

As a Multimodal AI - Intern, you will:

• Innovate & develop state-of-the-art solutions to industry relevant problems in the field of on-device audio-visual AI

• Actively propose and prototype novel research ideas/solutions considering real-world constraints

• Work on complex systems and develop research ideas into production ready software

• Incorporate software engineering practices at both research and development stages

• Communicate and disseminate research results via papers and/or reports

Skills and Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Perusing PhD degree in ML/AI, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related disciplines

• Strong fundamentals in machine learning and artificial intelligence

• First author publications in top ML/AI conferences/journals (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE IoT, IEEE TNNLS, JMLR or similar)

• Machine Learning experience in least one of the following domains:

  • Multimodal LLMs – audio and/or video

  • Contrastive Learning (e.g. multi-modal feature alignment)

  • Model compression methods (e.g. quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation)

• Demonstrated success:

  • Strong development skills with Python and/or C/C++ is required.

  • Experience with programming using popular machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch and/or Tensorflow

  • Creating comprehensive and well-written documentation.

  • Familiarity with software engineering practices and tools such as Git

• Excellent communication, teamwork and a results-oriented attitude

• Proficiency in problem solving and debugging

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in multimodal emotion recognition and foundational face models.

• Experience in multi-task learning and deception detection.

• A proven track record of developing complex training and inference pipelines

• Knowledge of embedded and/or distributed machine learning methods and tools

• Experience with model optimization, profiling and performance improvement of AI pipelines

• Contribution to open source software libraries

Contract Type: 6 month internship or 6 month outsourced contract via agency

Location: Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK

Hybrid Working: 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home weekly

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