Multimodal AI - Speech- MSc and PHD-Summer internship 2026- Research Lab

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

If you're a student excited about the intersection of large language models with speech and audio analysis-and want to contribute to research with both academic and industrial impact-this internship is for you.

Our team at IBM Research develops models, algorithms, and technologies that drive IBM products and advance the broader AI community. We publish papers, release open-source models, and file patents based on our work.

As an intern, you'll tackle real-world problems using cutting-edge deep learning methods to advance the state of the art in speech understanding and generation. You'll collaborate closely with researchers, leverage large-scale GPU compute, and focus on one of the following areas:

• Speech and Audio - Advancing recognition, analysis, and generation of natural speech and audio for more expressive, human-like interaction. Research spans generative and conversational AI, speech synthesis, and multimodal representation learning.
• Multimodal and Foundation Models - Exploring large-scale, unified models that jointly learn from text and audio. Topics include self-supervised learning, realistic data synthesis, expressive speech generation, and tokenization strategies.

The goal of the internship is to produce a high-quality research outcome and publish in a leading AI venue (e.g., ICLR, Interspeech, NeurIPS, ACL, ICML).

This is a 3-month, full-time summer internship at our Haifa or Tel Aviv research sites (flexible).

Sample of 2025 publications by the group:

Granite Speech, ASRU 2025

ProsodyLM: Uncovering the Emerging Prosody Processing Capabilities in Speech Language Models, COLM 2025

Spoken question answering for visual queries, Interspeech 2025

Continuous Speech Synthesis using per-token Latent Diffusion, ASRU 2025

A Non-autoregressive Model for Joint STT and TTS, ICASSP 2025

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• M.Sc. or Ph.D. student with knowledge in Machine Learning and Multimodal Large Language Models.
• Strong background using modern methods, deep knowledge of the recent literature, prior CV/ML/DL/LLMs publications are an advantage.
• Strong Python coding skills. Experience with Transformers and LLMs is an advantage.
• A team player with great social skills and willingness to collaborate.

Please add your grade sheet to your application

Preferred technical and professional experience

Publication/s at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Haifa, Israel

Job ID: IBM-76531

Employment Type: INTERN

Posted: 2025-11-25T18:52:22