Machine Learning Intern

The Role: Machine Learning Research Intern, Audio

As a Research Intern at Bland, you will own a focused research project across our voice stack: speech-to-text, large language models, neural audio codecs, or text-to-speech. You will work alongside our research team on the same problems they are working on, not on a side track built to keep interns busy.

We scope internships around a single meaningful question that can be answered in the time you have. The goal is a result worth shipping, publishing, or both. Interns here regularly see their work reach production systems handling millions of calls.

What You Will Do

Own a research question end to end

• Take one well-scoped problem from literature review through implementation, experimentation, and results.

• Design ablations that isolate what actually caused an improvement.

• Present your findings to the research team and defend the methodology.

Work on real systems

• Train and evaluate models on large-scale, real-world telephony audio, including the accents, noise, and artifacts that make production speech hard.