Research Scientist Intern - Multimodal Sensing & On-Device Perception - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PHD)

What you'll do

• Design and prototype imaging architectures that move computation closer to sensors, such as near-sensor processing, event-driven capture, and learned pixel-level compression.
• Build and characterize imaging pipelines from optics and sensors through ISP to perception models, identifying opportunities to reduce wasted data and add useful processing.
• Use foundation-model needs to guide sensing design and develop or adapt vision models around hardware power, bandwidth, and latency constraints.

What they ask for

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Strong research background in computer vision and machine learning, including hands-on model training.
• Experience in at least one of sequence modeling, language modeling, efficient neural network design, or signal processing.

Nice to have

• Research publications in CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, or similar venues.
• Hands-on active-sensing hardware prototyping, or familiarity with on-device/on-sensor computing, embedded ML deployment, and hardware/software co-design.

Tools

VLM, LLM, ISP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR

AI focus

Co-design sensing hardware and machine-vision algorithms for efficient perception, informed by vision-language models, LLMs, and world models.