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Walt Disney Imagineering Graduate Research Lab Associate Intern, Summer 2024

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The Walt Disney Company

Mar 30

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Software Engineering
  • Glendale

Requirements

  • Required Qualifications & Skills:
  • Python/ C++ experience for quick prototyping of algorithms
  • Exposure to popular DL model finetuning and inference methods for large-language models (LLMs).
  • Comfortable with PyTorch or other deep learning libraries for training/ finetuning models using open-source code.
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Prior experience building streaming inference systems using pretrained models.
  • Familiarity with audio self-supervised models and decoding using popular ASR architecture e.g. whisper,.wav2vec2 or Parakeet
  • Familiarity with vision and language foundation models
  • Experience with large language models
  • Education:
  • Working towards a master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
  • Eligibility Requirements & Program Information:
  • Be enrolled in an accredited college/university taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program OR must have graduated from a college/university within 6 months at time of application posting OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship
  • Be at least 18 years of age
  • Possess unrestricted work authorization
  • Have not completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or Disney College Program

Responsibilities

  • Perform experiments to benchmark the accuracy and latency of different models.
  • Helping with implementation of the algorithms in a real-time inference system
  • Identify additional research papers and models to investigate and align with project goals
  • Engage in team brainstorms and troubleshooting

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