Machine Learning Intern

9 months ago

Edmonton, Canada Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Full time

**Description**

**About the Role**

This is a paid internship that will be undertaken over a four-month period with the potential to be hired by our client, Pipio afterwards (note: at the discretion of the client). The intern will be reporting to an Amii Scientist and regularly consult with the Client team to share insights and engage in knowledge transfer activities.

**About our Client**

Pipio develops a video-making platform that allows users to create videos with photorealistic digital actors by simply typing in a script.

The company is dedicated to delivering creators with lifelike, affordable, and efficient synthetic audio and video solutions. This includes catering to both on-screen actors and voiceover experts. The primary objective is to streamline and enhance the video production process for content creators across various domains.

**About the Project**

**Required Skills / Expertise**

Are you passionate about building great solutions? Do you want to drive a high impact business? You’ll be presented with opportunities to both personally and professionally develop as you build your career. We’re looking for a talented and enthusiastic individual with a solid background in machine learning, specifically in voice processing and audio synthesis.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Identify, prepare, and optimize datasets for ML training
- Undertake applied research on ML techniques to address the limitations in existing models
- Collaborate with project team and stakeholders to develop MVP and client focused solutions
- Participate in regular meetings with the client, preparing presentations and reports
- Develop Data and ML workflows

**Required Qualifications**:

- At least one year into a Computing Science or ML graduate program, MSc.
- Previous experience with Generative AI use-cases particularly in voice processing and audio synthesis
- Proficient in Python programming language and related ML frameworks, libraries and toolkits (e.g. Scikit learn, Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Pandas, Jupyter notebooks)
- A positive attitude towards learning and understanding a new applied domain
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Familiarity with voice processing and audio engineering use-cases
- Publication record in peer-reviewed academic conferences or relevant journals in machine learning

**Non-Technical Requirements**:

- Desire to take ownership of a problem and demonstrated leadership skills
- Interdisciplinary team player enthusiastic about working together to achieve excellence
- Capable of critical and independent thought
- Intellectual curiosity and the desire to learn new things, techniques, and technologies

**Why You Should Apply**

Besides gaining industry experience, additional perks include:

- Work under the mentorship of an Amii Scientist for the duration of the project
- Participate in professional development activities
- Gain access to the Amii community and events
- Build your professional network
- The opportunity for an ongoing machine learning role at Pipio by the end of the term (at the client’s discretion)

**About Amii**

One of Canada’s three main institutes for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, our world-renowned researchers drive fundamental and applied research at the University of Alberta (and other academic institutions), training some of the world’s top scientific talent. Our cross-functional teams work collaboratively with Alberta-based businesses and organizations to build AI capacity and translate scientific advancement into industry adoption and economic impact.

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