Data Engineer Intern - Speech and Language Intelligence

Responsibilities

• This role is not just an internship.It is an entry point into world‑class AI collaboration.

Your Impact & Responsibilities

• As a Data Engineer Intern, you will operate as a hands‑on contributor to our ASR data pipeline, not a passive assistant.You will:
• Engineer, preprocess, and quality‑validate large‑scale speech and text datasets that directly influence ASR model performance
• Design and execute data transformations including text normalization, data chunking, format conversion, and structured analysis
• Optimize audio pipelines through segmentation, merging, transcoding, and subtitle/caption quality assurance
• Strengthen data pipelines by improving robustness, traceability, and reproducibility through clean logs and documentation
• Proactively identify data quality risks, triage issues at scale, and close the feedback loop with clarity and ownership

Qualifications

• Your work feeds production speech models, not toy datasets.

Qualifications

• We are looking for individuals who value engineering rigor, data quality, and long‑term growth.

Required:

• Undergraduate or Master’s student from a top‑tier university (Top 10 preferred) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or related fields
• Strong Python fundamentals, with the ability to write, debug, and improve data‑processing scripts
• High ownership mindset with exceptional attention to data quality, standards, and reproducibility
• Able to commit to 6 months or longer to ensure meaningful technical depth and impact

Nice To Have

• Exposure to Speech, ASR, or NLP through coursework or hands‑on projects
• Experience with speech/audio processing, data collection workflows, or multimedia QA (e.g., captions/subtitles)
• Chinese language proficiency is a strong plus, enabling smoother collaboration with cross‑regional teams