ML/AI Intern

Location: Santa Clara, CA | 90% Remote

Employment Type: Intern

Our Company

At CDIAL.AI, we harness artificial intelligence to drive inclusivity and economic growth across Africa. Our mission focuses on developing conversational AI tools that educate, bridge communication gaps, and unlock economic potential using indigenous languages. We envision empowering one billion Africans with AI-enabled multilingual systems for education, healthcare, and trade.

The Opportunity

For this Internship, our group is seeking PhD Research Interns with a similar passion for research on applications of the newest generative AI models to creative domains, with particular interest in low resourced languages, as well as improving large multimodal generations by grounding them in the real world.

What You Need to Succeed

Urgency to find problems worth solving, and agency to build solutions for those problems
Ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance; think strategically, and work tactically; attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
Enthusiastic curiosity about the latest technology and innovation trends.

Qualifications

Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, AI or a related field.
At least two years of research experience, including publication(s) in top-tier conferences or journals in related fields (e.g., ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.).
Proficient algorithmic problem solving and software development skills (Python, C/C++, etc.).
Hands-on experience working with large foundation models (e.g., OpenAI GPT models, LLAMA etc) and related prompting techniques, frameworks and toolkits (e.g., ICL, CoT, ReACT, Langchain, AutoGen).
Experience with open-source tools such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.
At least one year of experience in building speech-based applications.
Demonstrated ability to develop original research agendas.
Able to collaborate effectively with other researchers and product development teams.
Experience programming multimodal systems that interact with users, particularly by integrating multiple machine-learned components such as speech recognition, dialogue handling, natural language generation, etc.
Effective interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration.
Ability to think unconventionally to derive creative and innovative solutions.

Other Requirements

Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager’s worksite location for the duration of their internship.
In addition to the qualifications above, you’ll need to submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position. After you submit your application, a request for letters may be sent to your list of references on your behalf. Note that reference letters cannot be requested until after you have submitted your application, and furthermore, that they might not be automatically requested for all candidates. You may wish to alert your letter writers in advance, so they will be ready to submit your letter.

What We Offer

An opportunity to be part of a mission-driven organization.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
A collaborative and innovative work environment.
Flexibility in work arrangements.

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