PhD Research Intern – Speech AI

Full Time – 40 hours per week

Role Summary

Centific AI Research seeks a PhD Research Intern to design and evaluate speech‑first models, with a focus on Spoken Language Models (SLMs) that reason over audio and interact conversationally. You’ll move ideas from prototype to practical demos, working with scientists and engineers to deliver measurable impact.

Scope of Work

• End‑to‑end speech dialogue systems (speech‑in/speech‑out) and speech‑aware LLMs.
• Alignment between speech encoders and text backbones via lightweight adapters.
• Efficient speech tokenization and temporal compression suitable for long‑form audio.
• Reliable evaluation across recognition, understanding, and generation tasks—including robustness and safety.
• Latency‑aware inference for streaming and real‑time user experiences.

Example Projects

• Prototype a conversational SLM using an ...