LLM Intern

Sony Research India is driving cutting-edge research and development in various locations around the globe, including laboratories in Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia. We endeavor to create new technology, products, and services while sustaining Sony Group’s diverse businesses in electronics, entertainment, and financial fields. For our research centre to blaze a trail in the latest technologies, we seek to foster the growth of a diverse pool of research and engineering talent and create a technology talent bank to drive research excellence worldwide. Sony Research India is offering outstanding career opportunities around frontline technologies such as AI and data analytics.

What we are looking for:

• Highly motivated intern who can assist in our research and development efforts on multilingual translation, domain-specific evaluation, and LLM-based modeling. The ideal candidate should have prior project driven ( self or previous internships) experience in Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning.

Key Responsibilities:

Include collaborating closely with research scientists and other team members to explore and advance Neural Machine Translation (NMT) research within the scope of the project, like translation of entertainment domain content in various Indian and foreign languages. Interest or prior exposure to at least one of the following is desirable:

• Multilingual LLM probing and representation analysis
• Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures
• Unsupervised or low-resource NMT

Work Location:

Remote/Bengaluru/Mumbai

Duration of the paid internship:

• The paid internship will be for 6 months starting August 2025.
• The working hours are from 9:00 to 18:00 (Monday to Friday) full-time.

Essential Education:

Preferred Ph.D. candidate for this internship with thesis aligned towards causal inference or data science topics. We also welcome candidates with Bachelors and Master Degree who have sufficient project/prior internship work experience in Causal area.

Skills required:

Essential Skills:

• Good understanding in Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning.
• Natural Language Processing
• Excellent coding skills, especially in Python and PyTorch
• Practical knowledge of the state-of-the-arts in LLM, Foundation Models, Neural Machine Translation.

Good to have Skills:

• Experience in Indian Language Machine Translation
• Strong mathematical aptitude
• Papers in top-tier conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL, etc.

Our Values:

Dreams & Curiosity:

Diversity:

Integrity & Sincerity:

Sustainability:

Sony Research India is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures and to ensuring that no worker or potential worker will receive less favourable treatment due to any characteristic protected under applicable local laws.