2023 Data Science Researcher Intern

Lab Summary

At North America Bixby Lab, we build core technologies and systems powering Bixby, a next-generation virtual personal assistant, brought to you by the team that created Siri. Bixby provides a truly open platform that lets any developer extend its knowledge and capabilities.

Position Summary

During this internship we will explore goal and slot finding algorithms for the Bixby voice assistant. While we currently have a fast goal and slot finding algorithm, we would like to experiment with newer deep learned techniques and see if we can improve the accuracy while keeping the latency competitive. We will be to explore real time streaming and build ML models for online metrics. We will also identify new metrics and help improve the evaluation pipeline (metrics, training and test data, error analysis tools).

In this position, you will be part of the next generation Bixby team.

Required Skills

• Understanding of data structures, data modeling and software architectures
• Experience in NLP, AI, Voice Assistants, Machine Learning
• Knowledge in distributed compute/data processing technologies (eg: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive)
• PhD student studying Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
• Passionate about writing production quality code
• Curious learner that keeps up to date with ML technologies, ML frameworks and libraries (eg. Tensor Flow, Pytorch, scikit-learn)
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and ELK stack
• Knowledge or demo projects with Container technology and AWS services including S3, Amazon ECS or Google cloud

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Hourly Pay Rate Range

$55—$63 USD

Additional Information

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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