Company:Qualcomm Korea YH

Job Area:Interns Group, Interns Group > Interim Engineering Intern - SW

Qualcomm Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.

General Summary:

Qualcomm is a leading On-Device AI company, unlocking new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform On-Device AI's potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.

We are seeking a passionate and driven research interns to join our team in advancing state-of-the-art speech-language technologies. This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to foundational and applied research in speech-based large language models (LLMs), multimodal emotion understanding, and on-device conversational AI agents. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in speech recognition, text-to-speech, emotion recognition, spoken dialogue systems, or multi-modal generative models, with a focus on building intelligent systems that understand and respond empathetically to human communication. Selected candidates will work on one or more of the following areas:

Full-duplex and empathetic spoken dialogue system

Representation learning of audio and speech data

Multimodal emotion recognition using speech and text

Speech-language model adaptation and fine-tuning for on-device deployment
 

Minimum Qualifications:

Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, or a related field

Proficiency in Python and experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)

Solid understanding of speech processing or natural language processing concepts

Availability for a minimum of 6 months
 

Preferred Qualifications:

Prior research or hands-on project experience in one or more of the following areas: speech recognition, text-to-speech, speech self-supervised learning, speech emotion recognition, or large language models

Strong background in representation learning for speech and audio data

Experience with multimodal generative AI, integrating speech, text, and/or visual modalities

Proven track record of academic contributions, including research publications or presentations at top-tier conferences

Broad and in-depth understanding of machine learning and deep learning principles, algorithms, and architectures

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