The Role
As a Research Intern at Phonic, you’ll work directly on the core problems that make Phonic’s voice AI feel genuinely human. You’ll own a research direction end-to-end — from identifying the right problem to designing experiments, developing novel methods, and seeing results through to production impact. This isn’t a role focused on incremental improvements; we’re looking for someone with the taste to identify what matters, the rigor to pursue it correctly, and the drive to ship it. You’ll be fully in-person in our SF office.
What You’ll Do
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Identify high-leverage research problems across the voice AI stack from audio understanding to audio output, and take full ownership of driving them forward
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Design and run rigorous experiments that analyze architectural trade-offs to understand how design choices influence a model’s scalability, latency, and quality
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Curate massive training datasets and execute rigorous experiments to determine exactly how data quality shapes model behavior and performance
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Work directly with research scientists and engineers to move fast from prototype to production
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Build the training pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and tooling that let us experiment and iterate quickl
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