Deep Learning Internship - Students pursing PhD only

MediaTek
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1 year ago
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Job DescriptionDo you want to be part of a smart and passionate team of researchers, advancing artificial intelligence to the next level of end-user experience in their daily lives? MediaTek Research UK Ltd is seeking driven and brilliant young students to join our efforts by providing Internship placements. We are currently working to expand the frontiers of Deep Learning frameworks for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing and we hope you can join us! The ideal candidate is open-minded, passionate about learning theory, and looks forward to both practical and challenging problems.

•You will be working towards or recently have completed a PhD in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or Engineering.
•You have a good knowledge of the foundations of Deep Learning and Neural Networks, including some experience with Machine Learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX)
•You are a proficient scientific communicator. You are committed to your goals and working in a team.
•You are eager to tackle the state of the art problems in the field. We want your ideas to shine!

As a Deep Learning Researcher in our team, you will collaborate with our Cambridge Researchers and with worldwide colleagues, stay up and above the state of the art, initiate with novel ideas, and develop them into algorithms and applications that make the real difference in everyday devices. You will also push your contribution by publishing at top-tier conferences, such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR.
RequirementLocation
This position will be either in London or Cambridge UK.

MediaTek Research UK Ltd
MediaTek Research UK Ltd is the central research-oriented arm for the global MediaTek Group. The Research Lab shall advance the state of the art of AI and Communications technology, and deliver critical algorithms to enable innovative business cases.

About MediaTek
MediaTek Research UK Ltd’s parent group is a leading semiconductor product and technology company. We look for people with great passion and work ethic, who have a broad set of technical skills who are ready to master new technologies and tackle some of the industry’s greatest challenges to positively impact billions, of future users. At MediaTek, our employees are revolutionizing the shape, size and capability of devices in many parts of the consumer electronics, computing, wireless and mobile industry. From feature phones and smartphones, to tablets and digital television, MediaTek employees are changing the industry one innovative product after another.

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