Artificial General Intelligence (Audio/Speech/Language Processing and Large Multimodal Model Focus) RESEARCH INTERNSHIP

Business UnitTechnology Engineering Group (TEG) is responsible for supporting the company and its business groups on technology and operational platforms, as well as the construction and operation of R&D management and data centers, TEG provides users with a full range of customer services. As the operator of the largest networking, devices, and data center in Asia,TEG also leads the Tencent Technology Committee in strengthening infrastructure R&D through internal and distributed open source collaboration, constructing new platforms and supporting business innovation.

What the Role Entails

We are seeking artificial general intelligence research interns who are interested in developing novel audio/speech/language processing techniques and large multimodal models for our Seattle area office located at Bellevue WA for the year 2025. 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 include, but are not limited to, establishing more effective post-training recipe, finding more efficient large model architectures, improving large model reasoning abilities, building safe self-improving models/agents, and developing novel audio/speech processing technique, focusing on both text-only and multimodal scenarios.

Who We Look For

The ideal intern candidates are those who

• are Ph.D. students in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics or a related field,
• are self-motivated and excited about developing novel techniques,
• have research experiences in natural language processing, speech processing, 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.

About Tencent AI Lab at Seattle Area

Tencent is a leading internet company in China. Tencent AI Lab at Seattle Area was established in May 2017. 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.

Location: Bellevue, WA

Duration: 3 months (with the possibility of extension). Can start any time in the year 2025.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

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.