Company:Qualcomm Korea YHJob Area:Interns Group, Interns Group > Interim Engineering Intern - SWQualcomm Overview:Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.General Summary:Qualcomm is a leading On-Device AI company, unlocking new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform On-Device AI's potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.We are seeking a passionate and driven research interns to join our team in advancing state-of-the-art speech-language technologies. This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to foundational and applied research in speech-based large language models (LLMs), multimodal emotion understanding, and on-device conversational AI agents. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in speech recognition, text-to-speech, emotion recognition, spoken dialogue systems, or multi-modal generative models, with a focus on building intelligent systems that understand and respond empathetically to human communication. Selected candidates will work on one or more of the following areas:Full-duplex and empathetic spoken dialogue systemRepresentation learning of audio and speech dataMultimodal emotion recognition using speech and textSpeech-language model adaptation and fine-tuning for on-device deployment Minimum Qualifications:Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, or a related fieldProficiency in Python and experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)Solid understanding of speech processing or natural language processing conceptsAvailability for a minimum of 6 months Preferred Qualifications:Prior research or hands-on project experience in one or more of the following areas: speech recognition, text-to-speech, speech self-supervised learning, speech emotion recognition, or large language modelsStrong background in representation learning for speech and audio dataExperience with multimodal generative AI, integrating speech, text, and/or visual modalitiesProven track record of academic contributions, including research publications or presentations at top-tier conferencesBroad and in-depth understanding of machine learning and deep learning principles, algorithms, and architecturesApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail myhr.support@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities.Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.