2025 Fall Intern, Research Engineer

Lab Summary: 

Samsung Knox™ (https://www.samsungknox.com/) is Samsung’s guarantee of security, and a secure device gives you the freedom to work and play how, where, and when you want. Samsung Knox consists of a highly secure platform built into a variety of Samsung devices, including Samsung’s mobile phones and laptop computers.

Come join the Samsung KNOX team and help us define and develop the future core technologies for Samsung devices and services!

Position Summary:

In Knox Solutions Innovation team, we are looking for a passionate Research Engineer Intern to research innovative ideas, design end-to-end data pipelines, and create ML solutions for Samsung's array of B2B products. You will research and develop innovative ML strategies for challenging problems that will affect Samsung B2B products.

In this position, you will join a collaborative team of world-class developers/research engineers and have a chance to integrate your innovative solution into our Security & Intelligence services in Production.

Position Responsibilities:

• Create quick prototypes and proof-of-concepts
• Explore cutting-edge technologies for our products
• Design, develop, and productize AI/ML based solutions for Samsung services
• Design, develop, and productize Machine Learning algorithms from Samsung Research teams or Research Papers
• Design experiments, perform evaluations, and apply enhancements to our products
• Review work with the engineering team weekly and able to present your solution to SRA by the end of your internship

Required Skills:

• D. or M.S. students in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering or relevant fields
• Familiar with AI/ML latest framework, such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Hands-on experience in Knowledge Graph and various tabular DL approaches (such as MLP, Transformer, GCN, GAT, Autoencoder, PFN, NODE, etc.) on heterogeneous longitudinal data for anomaly detection, classification and regression tasks
• Strong hands-on experience in conducting architectural changes on given AI/DL solutions for research/work purposes.  For example, implementing cross-table treatments such as feature tokenization and attention layer tailoring to fuse numerical and categorical structured tabular data into a dense common representation
• High-quality coding in Python
• Familiar with ML model deployment and inferencing in Android OS
• Familiar with Data Structures, Algorithms and Linux OS concepts
• Ability to solve problems
• Open communicator with excellent visual, verbal, and written communication skills
• Passionate about researching innovative solutions and creating enterprise products for web and mobile

Preferred Skills:

• First- or co-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, NAACL, ICASSP, or similar.  If yes, please provide the paper DOI link.
• Familiar with AI retrieval solutions (such as Graph mining, RAG, etc.).
• Familiar with root cause analysis using causal inference.
• Familiar with synthetic data generation.

Our total rewards programs are designed to motivate and engage exceptional talent. The hourly pay rate range for roles at this level is listed below, but may be higher or lower in other states due to geographic differentials in the labor market. Within the hourly pay rate range, individual rates depend on a number of factors—including the role’s function and location as well as the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, education and training. This is part of our comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.Hourly Pay Rate Range$44—$63 USD

Additional Information

Disclosure of Trade Secrets

Samsung has a strict policy on trade secrets. In applying to Samsung and progressing through the recruitment process, you must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer.

Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Samsung Research America is committed to complying with all Federal, State and local laws related to the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact the recruiter or email sratalent@samsung.com.

 

Equal Employment Opportunity

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