Internship - AI Application Engineer

About the role

Technology Field Machine Learning Computer Vision Position Summary At Sony R&D, we are pioneering the next generation of generative AI technologies that will transform how creators and audiences experience entertainment. From anime to film, music to games, we are working across the Sony Group to build AI that doesn’t just push the boundaries of research, but also empowers creators to tell their stories in new and powerful ways. Here are two of the groundbreaking projects you could be part of: ■ Video Generation AI We are also venturing into one of the most exciting frontiers of generative AI: video generation. Our goal is to develop technologies that can revolutionize how movies, music videos, games, and anime are produced across Sony’s global businesses. Current video generation models show great promise but are far from production-ready. To make them truly usable, we need to solve critical challenges such as: - Controllability: camera work, character motion, lip-sync, preventing subject fragmentation - Editability: video inpainting, style transfer, compositing - Customization: tuning for specific IPs, ensuring character consistency, adjusting motion dynamics, reinforcing models with creator feedback This project is about building video AI that creators can actually use to tell compelling stories—not just generating flashy demos. If you are excited about building the future of video creation and transforming the global entertainment industry, we’d love to have you on board. ■ Anime-Focused Image Generation AI Japan is home to one of the world’s richest collections of anime IP, including those from Sony’s group companies. We are taking on the bold challenge of developing a next-generation foundation model specialized in anime image generation—an AI that can truly transform how anime is made. Existing reference-based editing AIs may deliver strong draftsmanship, but they often fail to preserve artistic style and IP consistency, making them unsuitable for real product