Machine Learning R&D Intern

GlobalEnglish is a Silicon Valley Education Technology startup whose mission is to promote and share the cultural and economic benefits of Globalization. We’ve helped more than 4 million people join and elevate the Global Business conversation by providing personalized and adaptive online business English training. We serve more than 200 of the Fortune 2000 companies with customers such as Procter & Gamble, IBM, Deloitte, Amazon or Goldman Sachs.

GlobalEnglish has been converting its trove of learner data and business English content to build a unique pedagogical method, called Purposeful Learning. By focusing on learner’s objectives and interests, it uses a combination of machine learning and human teaching to deliver a personalized and adaptive learning path that provides tangible learning progress and creates a habit of success.

About the Job

As a Machine Learning R&D Intern, you will support millions of English language learners worldwide on their journey to improve their communication skills. You’ll work closely with developers, product managers , linguists, and learning specialists to create next-generation machine learning solutions. You’ll ensure that GlobalEnglish harnesses data to:

• Provide targeted learning supports via its recommendation engine
• Leverage NLP tools to create learning content automatically
• Work on speech processing tasks such as pronunciation scoring, end-to-end Speech-To-Text, etc.

To apply to this paid internship, the candidate must either already be able to work in the US, or to be eligible to work in USA on J1 visa, which will be sponsored by the Company.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong working knowledge of deep learning, machine learning, statistics and related toolkits, e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or R
• Experience in key language technologies, such as speech recognition, natural language generation or natural language understanding is a plus
• Passion for building research demo prototypes and turning them into production quality implementation
• Ability to synthesize and communicate ideas clearly to others orally and in writing
• A love of learning, especially in the areas of language and communication