Research Intern, Natural Language & Speech Processing

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

We are seeking natural language & speech processing research interns in our Seattle office located at Bellevue WA for year 2021. You will be working with researchers on a research project related to one of the core problems in natural language processing (e.g., natural language understanding and generation, question and answering, reading comprehension, and knowledge graph inference), dialog system (e.g., multi-turn, multi-modal, and multi-user dialog tracking and management), and speech recognition and synthesis (e.g., new paradigm). You will work on real and/or big data using our high-performing computing facility and are encouraged to publish the results of your internship.

Key responsibilities:

The research interns will work tightly with our high performing research team and apply their knowledge and innovative approaches to improve human-machine interaction and machine intelligence.

*This position is expected to regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment, and the candidate is the one responsible for above functions and free from immediate direction or supervision

Requirements:

The ideal intern candidates are those who

• Ph.D. students in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field;
• Self-motivated
• Research experience in natural language processing, speech processing, dialog system, or machine learning (esp. deep learning and reinforcement learning);
• Good publication record and history of creativity and intellectual flexibility;

• Good programming skills in Python and/or C++ and has experience in using one of the leading deep learning toolkits such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, and CNTK.