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Role Overview
We have multiple positions available for our 4-month Deep Learning Research internship program.
As a Deep Learning Research Intern, you will develop, prototype, and implement new fundamental and impactful methods in one of our research areas. The internship program gives you a unique opportunity to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence and publish at scientific conferences. You will join a team of talented and experienced researchers and engineers and become part of our collaborative and interdisciplinary environment.
Our research areas include
Sequential and Multimodal Reasoning: Investigate how neural architectures learn to maintain and update internal state through reusable, step-by-step computations across language and visual tasks, including the role of recurrence, active perception, local information processing, and memory.
Generalization and Data Efficiency: Study architectural inductive biases that help vision and language models learn efficiently and generalize to more complex problems.
Interaction models: Research on efficient pro-active video models, visual question answering, state-tracking in videos.
Embodied AI: Research on manipulation, loco-manipulation on humanoid robots, learning-from-human-videos, sim2real, and reinforcement learning applied to these topics.
Required Qualifications
Experience developing deep learning models for text, image or video applications.
Strong foundation in deep learning fundamentals, including modern architectures, optimization, and training methodologies.
Experience with Python and PyTorch for deep learning research and development.
Prior experience with research and publications at relevant academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV etc.) is a plus.
Education Requirements
In study towards a bachelor’s, Master's, or PHD degree in one of the following: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Science, Computer Science, or related field
For 4-month internships: must be available May or June 2027 - August or September 2027
Expected graduation date of November 2027 or later.
1+ years of academic experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Python, etc
Qualcomm’s Internship Program
Our interns join world-class teams to help define and build what is next for mobility and the world. You’ll be paired with a mentor with visibility to your project and team, receive support from your manager, and have access to the entire Qualcomm employee community to ensure your success. To round out your internship, we host professional development workshops, social events, cross-functional speaker sessions, and an executive speaker series. In addition to competitive hourly pay and accrued vacation time, you will receive housing stipend to accommodate for the duration of your internship.
Application Process
We will review resumes on an ongoing basis, and a recruiter may reach out to you. Advancing candidates may be invited to complete a timed HackerRank challenge to evaluate their technical skill set.
Export Control Notice
This role may require an export license for candidates with citizenship in certain countries (see current country list below – subject to change). Qualcomm, like other companies, is experiencing significant delays in the export license process. Please be advised that if an export license is required, you may not be able to start work with Qualcomm until the license is granted, which may impact your ability to participate in the internship.
Countries requiring export: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, Cuba, Georgia, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Macau, Moldova, Mongolia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits
$54,600.00 - $103,350.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
