Research Engineer Intern, Genies
Speech Generation, Spring 2026 Internship
$45-$55 USD per hour
AI avatar technology company
Open for applications
AI avatar technology company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$45-$55 USD per hour
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock a more authentic type of human expression, enabling people to be more comfortable with their true selves in the digital world.
Role
Who you are
- Currently pursuing a Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field
- Demonstrated experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) and Python programming
- Solid understanding of digital signal processing (DSP) fundamentals and audio synthesis concepts
- Experience with at least one relevant area: Speech Synthesis, Voice Clone, or Generative Modeling
Desirable
- First-author publications in top-tier venues such as ICASSP, Interspeech, NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR
- Familiarity with model optimization techniques (quantization, distillation) and inference acceleration
- Knowledge or experience integrating machine learning models into production environments
- Previous internship or research experience in audio AI or related domains
What the job involves
- Genies is looking for a passionate Research Engineer Intern to join our core AI team at our Bay Area office in San Francisco, CA
- You will solve fundamental technical challenges in creating socially-aware, autonomous, and creative AI characters and companions
- Working closely with a dedicated team of engineers and researchers, you will bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world product impact
- Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art Generative AI models for speech generation, including Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Voice Clone
- Investigate and apply novel architectures such as Flow Matching, or Autoregressive Transformers to improve audio fidelity and voice cloning capabilities
- Develop techniques for disentangled representation learning to separate speaker identity from prosody and emotion, enabling highly controllable and expressive character voices
- Optimize deep learning models for real-time inference, focusing on latency reduction and throughput improvement
- You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
- You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a work from home policy
- You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
Our take
Genies is a leading avatar company, bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. With the number of users in the digital space growing exponentially, Genies' goal is to help people more accurately depict themselves online.
While avatars have been around for a while, Genies provides users with greater customisation options. For example, thanks to a partnership with Gucci, users can now buy digital designer clothing for their avatars.
The fact that Fortnite sold $1B in avatar skins in one year alone highlights how popular avatars still are in the gaming and entertainment industry. Genies has raised nearly $270M in funding and hopes to capitalise on this opportunity moving forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2022
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$65m
SERIES B
Total funding: $255.3m
Company benefits
- You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
- You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a work from home policy
- You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance
- Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full time employees
- Flexible paid time off, sick time, monthly mental health days and paid company holidays; in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
- Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement
- Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide!
- Choice of MacBook or windows laptop
Company HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Akash Nigam
(Founder & CEO)CEO and founder at Blend, then co-founded Genies in 2017 - has been CEO since. General Partner and Founder at Humans since 2020.
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