Engineering Intern (AI Ethics)

Sony AI America, a branch of Sony AI, is a remotely distributed organization spread across the U.S. and Canada. Sony AI is Sony’s new research organization pursuing the mission to use AI to unleash human creativity. Sony AI works closely with Sony’s other business units, including Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., and Sony Music Entertainment. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: https://ai.sony/

About Sony Research Ethics Team  
Sony Research is dedicated to driving innovation, advancing technology and ensuring that AI is developed responsibly, ethically, and inclusively. The AI Ethics team focuses on creating frameworks, tools, and methodologies that promote trust, transparency, fairness, and accountability in AI systems and technologies. See more details on the AI Ethics Team at Sony AI here: https://ai.sony/projects/ai-ethics/  

Position Summary 
We are seeking a motivated and passionate Engineering Intern to join our interdisciplinary team working at the forefront of AI Ethics, Safety and Responsible AI for a 3-6 month internship. As an intern, you will contribute to cutting-edge projects using agentic AI to address fundamental ethical challenges associated with AI adoption in a global multimedia company. This internship will provide you with hands-on experience in exploring the responsible development of agentic AI and offers a unique opportunity to work alongside researchers and engineers in a globally diverse team. 

Responsibilities 

• Support the development and improvement of engineering infrastructure for a novel agentic AI system, including implementing task-specific agents and workflow orchestration 

• Improve and scale agent infrastructure for LLM evaluations, logging and analysis of agent workflow components 

• Contribute to the development of tools and frameworks to assess and mitigate AI-related risks in agentic AI 

• Support technical experiments that conduct evaluations of LLMs and AI agents with engineering infrastructure 

• Contribute to influential research outcomes in top-tier conferences and journals. 

• Be self-motivated and capable of proposing and implementing innovative ideas. 

Qualifications 

• Completed or currently pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related Sciences. 

• A strong background in software engineering and an interest in agentic AI. Prior hands-on experience with agentic AI as demonstrated through projects is strongly preferred. 

• Familiarity with and interest in AI ethics and responsible AI development. 

• Proficient in programming in Python and contributing to collaborative software development (version control, git workflows) 

• Familiar with AI and machine learning fundamentals.  

• Experience with LLM tooling and frameworks (in particular LangChain and Ollama), API integration and prompt engineering. 

• Additional knowledge in one or more of the following areas is preferred: NLP, task automation through scripting, frontend development and cloud computing. 

• Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving skills. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. 

Working Location

Location Flexible (US & Canada)

Apply now and make an impact with the Sony AI Ethics Team! 

The target hourly rate for this internship is $45.00 per hour. The individual will be paid hourly and eligible for overtime.   

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