# Full time - Researcher / Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Multimodal Machine Learning

Technology Field Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Position Summary We are an R&D organization dedicated to the research and development of large-scale generative AI technologies for content creation and production in the entertainment domain, including music, film, and games. Generative AI technologies have the potential to transform both consumer lifestyles and the workflows of professional creators, and are expected to become an essential component of the music, film, and gaming industries in the years ahead. By leveraging opportunities to collaborate directly with world-leading entertainment groups across these industries, our team engages in cutting-edge research and development to contribute to Sony Group’s businesses. For more information about our research activities and publications, please visit: https://sony.github.io/creativeai Responsibilities Fundamental research in natural language processing such as multimodal learning, multimodal LLM, music/video understanding, agent, reasoning, controllable generative modeling, deep generative models for discrete data, image/audio captioning, text-to-image/audio, vision-language pre-training, commonsense knowledge grap

- **Id**: 202251
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ai-full-time-researcher-natural-language-processing-nlp-for-multimodal-machine-learning>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tokyo, Japan
- **Countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-31T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T13:01:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 97
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2783
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 94949
- **Name**: Sony AI
- **Domain**: ai.sony
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sony-ai>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 57
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0.714
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Pre-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow C++** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 97

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-04T17:34:03Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.3
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 97
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:12, stale_co, velocity, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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