Internship - Applied Research Scientist

Smule has been on a mission to bring the world together through music since 2008. Music is much more than listening… it's about creating, sharing, discovering, participating, and connecting with people. With dozens of millions of monthly active users creating over 20 million songs every day, Smule is connecting people all over the world through the joy of making music and transforming the music landscape from one of passive listening to collaborative creative expression and active engagement. About the Role: We are seeking a Research Scientist for Smule's Applied Research team who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and real-world product impact. You will take ideas from the research frontier, or originate your own, and develop them into practical solutions that improve Smule's products, pipelines, and user experience for a community of millions. The ideal candidate combines research depth with strong engineering instincts, a bias toward measurable outcomes, and genuine curiosity about how people make music. We strongly encourage candidates with non-traditional ML backgrounds to apply. If your path into applied machine learning came through audio engineering, music production, signal processing, data science, or another field, we want to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing: Develop and adapt state-of-the-art ML techniques to solve concrete product challenges in areas such as audio processing, content understanding, recommendation, and generative music, del