Summer 2026 ML Engineer/Research Intern at Sonauto (W24)
$6K - $9K / monthly
Create hit songs with AI
San Francisco, CA, US
Internship
US citizen/visa only
About Sonauto

At Sonauto we're building a platform for creating, sharing, and listening to music made by people with the help of our in-house generative music model Melodia. With Sonauto, people who have never made music before can have fun and express themselves in a completely new way.

We're working on the most fun application of the most bleeding edge research, what more is there to say?

About the role
Skills: Torch/PyTorch, JavaScript, Python, GPU Programming, Machine Learning, CUDA

Languages: Python (PyTorch), JavaScript (TypeScript)

Listen and try Sonauto: https://sonauto.ai/

About the role:

We're training state of the art generative models in a completely new modality where the standard of quality is significantly higher than those that came before. Accordingly, we are consistently implementing new generative architectures and improving current ones. Previous interns’ experiments were in production within weeks and their names were front and center in our announcements.

Right now we're doing distributed training at the scale of hundreds of H100s on diffusion models, GANs, language models, and more written in PyTorch.


You will lead research efforts for improving the song and audio quality of our generative music models, along with productizing the results.

We’re looking for people with:

  • Extensive experience with PyTorch training generative models like diffusion models, GANs, and language models. Work with open-source orgs/projects counts too.
  • Experience with JavaScript (our frontend is React/NextJS) and backend development are also important to us.
  • Experience with audio models is a huge plus.
  • Many of our biggest improvements wouldn’t have been possible without extremely close listening, so being an audiophile and/or having music production experience are also huge pluses.
Technology

Languages: Python (PyTorch), JavaScript (TypeScript)

We're training state of the art generative models in a completely new modality where the standard of quality is significantly higher than those that came before (hands with three fingers is fine in images, but miss a beat in a song and it's ruined). Accordingly, we are consistently implementing and inventing new generative architectures and improving current ones.

Right now we're doing distributed training at the scale of hundreds of H100s on diffusion models, GANs, language models, and more written in PyTorch.

However, we're not a pure research lab, our models go right into production and are generating tens of thousands of songs within days of (and frequently even before) finishing training. Our most important goal is the product itself, so extensive experience in JavaScript (our frontend is React/NextJS) and backend development are also important to us.

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