Summer 2026 ML Engineer/Research Intern

Sonauto
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteInternshipUSD 6,000 - 9,000 monthlyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Close listening","Music production"]

Work on research and productization for generative music models, improving song and audio quality. Contribute to distributed training at large scale (hundreds of H100s) for diffusion, GANs, and language models implemented in PyTorch. Collaborate closely to translate experiments into production results quickly, including leveraging JS for relevant frontend/backend development where needed.

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Sonauto
Sonauto
1 year ago

Summer 2026 ML Engineer/Research Intern

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Job Summary

Work on research and productization for generative music models, improving song and audio quality. Contribute to distributed training at large scale (hundreds of H100s) for diffusion, GANs, and language models implemented in PyTorch. Collaborate closely to translate experiments into production results quickly, including leveraging JS for relevant frontend/backend development where needed.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Internship
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Intern level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead research efforts to improve song and audio quality of generative music models.
  • •Help productize research results from experiments into usable improvements.
  • •Contribute to distributed training for diffusion models, GANs, and language models implemented in PyTorch.
  • •Implement and improve generative architectures to raise quality standards over prior approaches.
  • •Collaborate closely to ensure rapid experimentation and production deployment (previous interns shipped within weeks).

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 6,000 - 9,000 monthly

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive experience training generative models with PyTorch (diffusion, GANs, language models), including experience with open-source projects.
  • •Experience with JavaScript and backend development (frontend uses React/NextJS).
  • •Experience with audio models is a huge plus.
  • •Be an audiophile and/or have music production experience to support extremely close listening.
  • •Experience improving and iterating on generative architectures for higher quality outputs.
Experience:Generative AIAudio modelsDiffusion modelsGANsOpen source
Skills:Close listeningMusic production
Languages:PythonJavaScriptTypeScript
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchTorch/PyTorchCUDAGPU ProgrammingJavaScriptTypeScriptReactNextJSDiffusion modelsGANsLanguage modelsH100

Company Brief

Sonauto
Develops AI-driven software and perception systems for autonomous and assisted driving, providing vehicle-level intelligence for navigation, sensor fusion, and decision-making to enable safer, more reliable automated mobility solutions.
Industry: Autonomous Vehicles
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