Company:Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:Interns Group, Interns Group > Interim Engineering Intern - HW

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General Summary:

 

Deep Learning Research Internship (4 months Summer 2025)  

 

This internship aims to investigate and develop novel ideas and proof-of-concept fine-tuning techniques for Generative AI models (LLM, LVM, LMM) for the edge devices with compute, memory, and power constraints. These techniques can be extended to on-device fine-tuning with focus on memory-efficiency to enable on-device learning and adaptation.

These fine-tuned models can be further quantized, compressed, and modified to optimize performance and accuracy for edge devices. Experience in large generative models such as Llama family and other transformer-based auto-regressive models, diffusion-based text-to-image models, vision-language models and fine-tuning algorithms will be leveraged for this internship.

Work includes implementation of baselines and existing methods, comparative evaluation on benchmarks, and ablation studies. Contribution to paper submissions at top-tier conference is encouraged.

 

Programming Languages:   

Python 

 

Minimum Qualification:  

Knowledge in: Deep learning, machine learning, research in generative models, efficient fine tuning methods for generative models

Python programming

Pytorch 

Neural network architecture development and evaluation 

 

Educational Requirements:  

In study towards a Masters or PhD in the following:  

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering with a graduation date of December-2025 or later

Looking 1 Summer Co-op (May - August) 

 

 

 

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