2025 Intern, NLP and ML Research Full-time

Lab Summary: AI Research Center (AIC) located in Mountain View, California focuses on research and development which directly impacts future Samsung products reaching hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We are focused on pushing the state-of-the-art and practice in natural language and knowledge intelligence.

Position Summary: Samsung Research AI center, located in Mountain View, CA, is currently recruiting world-class students who can thrive in a fast-pace, cross team, results-driven environment, with focus on highly visible, challenging, and cross discipline projects. You will be part of an exciting project to build an adaptive, personalized, contextual and secure AI model and system to enable fast, accurate and safe interactions tailored to users’ needs on Samsung devices.

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement novel deep learning/reinforcement learning algorithms for natural language processing (text, speech) in various applications
• Contribute to the research activities of our team
• Generate creative solutions (patents) and publish in top conferences (papers)

Required Skills:

• Teamwork and communication skills
• Current Ph.D. student in CS, EE, or related field
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Strong background in machine learning (supervised learning, transfer learning, one-shot or few shot learning, unsupervised learning, semi-supervised learning, weakly supervised learning, meta-learning, outlier detection, etc.).
  • Expertise in LLM including model architecture, training/finetuning techniques, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), reasoning and action planning, etc.
  • Experience in conversational AI technologies: natural language processing (e.g., language models, semantic parsing, natural language generation etc.), dialogue (e.g., state tracking, policy learning), and representation learning (embedding, conceptualization, etc.).
  • Experience in knowledge augmented AI technologies (e.g., language prompt, knowledge graph, neuro-symbolic learning).
  • Experience in agentic AI is a plus.
  • Experience in multimodal AI technologies for various multimodal applications.
  • Experience in on-device AI technologies such as lightweight model architecture design.
  • Proficiency in a neural network library (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).
  • Proven track record of research/publications on machine learning and artificial intelligence field (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, TACL, etc.)

Our total rewards programs are designed to motivate and engage exceptional talent. The hourly pay rate range for roles at this level is listed below, but may be higher or lower in other states due to geographic differentials in the labor market. Within the hourly pay rate range, individual rates depend on a number of factors-including the role’s function and location as well as the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, education and training. This is part of our comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.

Hourly Pay Rate Range

$48-$63 USD

Additional Information

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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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