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Summer 2026 ML Engineer/Research Intern

Sonauto is an AI music editor that converts prompts, lyrics, and melodies into complete songs of any style.

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San Francisco, CA
Company size
2–10
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3w ago
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Summer 2026 ML Engineer/Research Intern

Sonauto· San Francisco, CA, USView company profile

Job title
Summer 2026 ML Engineer/Research Intern
Job location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job listing URL
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sonauto/jobs/UQAJuQ8-summer-2026-ml-engineer-research-intern
Job description
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.
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Where this role is based

San Francisco, CA

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Sonauto headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Company size

2–10 employees

Founded

2023

Total raised

$500,000

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