Optimizing AI Efficiency Through Knowledge Distillation for Vision-Language Models on Edge Devices Location: Clamart, France Duration: 6 Months About Us: SRPC is SLB's largest technology and development center in Europe, home to over 1,200 scientists, engineers, and technicians from more than 50 nationalities. Based in Clamart near Paris, we drive innovation across artificial intelligence, advanced electronics, extreme-environment systems, sensing, software, and applied sciences. What You'll Work On: - Exploring and implementing knowledge distillation techniques for compressing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) - Benchmarking student-teacher architectures and measuring effects on latency, memory usage, throughput, and multimodal accuracy - Optimizing models specifically for edge deployment, considering hardware constraints and real-world performance - Building evaluation pipelines using Python, PyTorch, and multimodal frameworks - Working closely with researchers to refine methods and produce actionable insights, experiments, and comparisons Required Skills - Master's in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related fields - Oral and written communication skills in English - Good motivation, autonomy, teamwork, and ingenuity - Natural Language Processing, LLMs, VLMs, Python, Pytorch More info & application: https://www.jobteaser.com/en/job-offers/8c3be374-92d7-4bdf-8159-521a36ae4091-slb-ai-engineer-intern-id-145https://www.jobteaser.com/en/job-offers/8c3be374-92d7-4bdf-8159-521a36ae4091-slb-ai-engineer-intern-id-145%20both%206%20months%20end%20of%20studies%20Masters