Research Intern

Phonic is a product and research lab focused on creating realistic voice AI conversations. As a Research Intern, you will work on core problems in voice AI, taking ownership of research directions and driving them from problem identification to production impact.

Responsibilities:

• Identify high-leverage research problems across the voice AI stack from audio understanding to audio output, and take full ownership of driving them forward
• Design and run rigorous experiments that analyze architectural trade-offs to understand how design choices influence a model’s scalability, latency, and quality
• Curate massive training datasets and execute rigorous experiments to determine exactly how data quality shapes model behavior and performance
• Work directly with research scientists and engineers to move fast from prototype to production
• Build the training pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and tooling that let us experiment and iterate quickly