2025 Summer Intern, Speech Research

Lab Summary: 

Samsung Research America (SRA) plays a pivotal role in developing the next generation of discovery in software, user experience and services for future products that can enrich your life.

Our mission is to research and develop new technologies by partnering with the best and brightest and creating a collaborative environment between industry and academia. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, with locations in many technology centers in North America, SRA is driven to build a culture of innovation that rapidly translates research and new ideas into the unexpected.

At North America Bixby Lab, we build core technologies and systems powering Galaxy Intelligence, a next-generation virtual personal assistant, brought to you by the team that created Siri.  Galaxy Intelligence provides a truly open platform that lets any developer extend its knowledge and capabilities.

Position Summary:

For this position we are looking to add few interns to support our voice technology projects. One will focus more specifically in advanced research in Automatic Speech Recognition, including Acoustic and Speech based Large Language Modeling, model compression and personalization. Experience with Android would be very desirable. Work streams are also on wake-up word detection, including feature extraction, modeling and personalization. Other projects include voice recognition, language recognition, speech enhancement to name a few. We are looking for candidates with knowledge of Deep/Machine Learning, LLM, Android app building, model compression and Digital Signal Processing.

Position Responsibilities: 

• Build LLM based speech applications and research experience with LLMs, model compression
• Research in Automatic Speech Recognition, Acoustic and Language Modeling, and personalization, wakeword detection
• Development experience on Android platform

Required Skills: 

• Pursuing MS or PhD in Computer Science
• Knowledge of Deep/Machine Learning, LLM, Digital Signal Processing
• C, C++, JAVA/Android, PYTHON
• Tensorflow, Pytorch

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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.

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