Research Internship- Multimodal LLM (Speech/Music/Audio/Vision/Language)

About the Team

Tencent AI Lab at the Seattle Area, established in May 2017, strives to continuously improve AI's capability in perception, cognition, and creativity. The lab is dedicated to advancing cutting-edge AI technologies, with a particular focus on innovative breakthroughs in large foundation models. The long-term ambition is to drive the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and, ultimately, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Researchers there aim at solving challenging real-world problems with advanced technologies and publish extensively at top conferences and journals.

The Technology Engineering Group (TEG) supports the company and its business groups on technology and operational platforms, as well as the construction and operation of R&D management and data centers. As the operator of the largest networking, devices, and data center in Asia, TEG leads the Tencent Technology Committee in strengthening infrastructure R&D through internal and distributed open source collaboration, constructing new platforms and supporting business innovation.

About the Role

We are seeking research interns interested in developing novel speech, music, audio, vision, and language processing techniques and large multimodal models for our Seattle area office located in Bellevue, WA. Every research intern will work directly with researchers on a project aimed at attacking one of the core problems by inventing cutting-edge techniques. We encourage discussions and collaborations between researchers and interns, and interns are encouraged to publish the results from their internship.

Our projects span a wide range of areas, including developing more effective multimodal pretraining and post-training strategies for audio, speech, music, image, and video understanding and generation. We aim to enable fully duplex conversations, design more efficient large-model architectures, enhance multimodal memory and reasoning capabilities, and advance novel audio, speech, music, image, and video processing techniques—such as encoding, tokenization, and representation learning—with a focus on multimodal applications and end-to-end large models.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.