Sony Research India is driving cutting-edge research and development in various locations around the globe, including laboratories in Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia. We endeavor to create recent technology, products, and services while sustaining Sony Group’s diverse businesses in electronics, entertainment, and financial fields. For our research center to blaze a trail in the latest technologies, we seek to foster the growth of a diverse pool of research and engineering talent and create a technology talent bank to drive research excellence worldwide. Sony Research India is offering outstanding career opportunities around frontline technologies such as AI and data analytics.

We are looking for a highly motivated AI Research Intern to work on user behavior modeling for OTT platforms. The internship focuses on developing value-based models that capture how users perceive and derive value from the platform and leveraging causal inference techniques to identify effective interventions that improve user engagement, retention, and long-term satisfaction.




This is an opportunity to work on real-world, business-driven research problems at the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and user modeling.

Work Location:
Remote work within India.

Duration of the paid internship:
The paid internship will be for six months starting third week of August 2026.
The working hours are from 9:00 IST to 18:00 IST (Monday to Friday).

Education:
Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a closely related field.

Responsibilities:
Develop predictive models using ML/DL/LLMs to understand and predict user behavior on OTT platforms.
Design and build value-based models to quantify the value users derive from different aspects of the platform and content.
Apply causal inference techniques to identify factors influencing user engagement and retention and recommend

📌 AI Research Intern (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sony Research India
📍 Bengaluru