Research Scientist Intern - LLM/Vision/Speech

Genies is an AI avatar and games technology company powering the next generation of digital experiences. Genies' technology stack is rooted in empowering user generated content through the company's two main mantras:

“Anyone can create anything” & “Everything works with everything”

By combining these two guiding principles, individuals can craft limitless experiences while IP owners can build dynamic social gaming ecosystems powered by user-generated content (UGC) and AI Avatars—what Genies calls "Parties."

Genies' technology stack features a comprehensive suite of UGC tools that enable anyone to create AI avatars, complete with customizable fashion, props, behaviors, and personalities, as well as immersive AI avatar experiences. At its core is the Genies Avatar Framework, which leverages machine learning and computer graphics to ensure seamless interoperability across all user-generated AI avatars and experiences—unlocking boundless creative potential.

Early adopters of Genies’ first gen avatars include icons like Justin Bieber, Rihanna, J Balvin, Migos, and thousands more. With offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Genies has raised $200M from notable investors including Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger.

Genies is looking for an Research Scientist Intern to join us at our Bay Area office in San Mateo CA, you will work closely with a dedicated and talented team of Engineers and Researchers. In this role, you'll be diving into the innovative intersection of LLM, 3D interaction and gaming. Your role will be instrumental in developing a cutting-edge system, underpinned by advanced LLM, Vision, Speech, and multi-modal models to unlock new dimensions of player interaction. 

Our summer internship program has a minimum duration of 12 weeks.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Contribute to real-world products by researching and developing LLM-driven solutions and pipelines aimed at transforming avatar entertainment experiences.
• Design evaluations and perform both controlled experiments and observational analyses to assess system effectiveness.
• Absorb machine learning literature, particularly in language, vision, speech and, multi-modality, and quickly prototype new techniques by engaging with relevant research papers and textbooks.
• Explore the feasibility of productization, identifying issues and gaps that may lead to direct production implementations or inspire new research directions for publication.

What You Should Have: 

Minimum Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in or a recent graduate of a PhD degree program in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Minimum 12 weeks internship. 40 hours per week is required with hybrid onsite arrangement.
• Solid understanding of machine learning concepts and recent natural language processing techniques.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python and experience with machine learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Hugging Face).
• Ability to conduct research and prototype solutions based on academic literature.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly and effectively.

Preferred Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience in developing LLM-driven solutions and pipelines through publications on venues including: ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, EMNLP, NAACL, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH and etc.
• Deep understanding of and experience with the latest natural language processing techniques.
• Demonstrated solid software development skills through ML/NLP projects
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs and familiarity with popular prompt and LLM agent methods..

Here's why you'll love working at Genies:

• Salary $50 - $55 per hour.
• You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
• You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a hybrid(office+home) policy
• You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded 
• Flexible paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays, in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
• Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement  
• Choice of MacBook or windows laptop

Genies is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.