Sony Data Science Intern 2026 | Sony Research India | Remote — Apply Now

About the Sony Data Science Intern 2026 role

Sony Research India is hiring an AI Intern to help accelerate the next generation of its predictive algorithms and data analysis architectures. Sony Research India drives R&D across Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia, supporting Sony Group’s businesses in electronics, entertainment, and financial fields. The Sony Data Science Intern 2026 opening is a paid, fully remote, six-month internship where you move between exploration and execution – parsing complex data, testing frontier machine learning techniques, and turning business hypotheses into robust software assets on projects that reach production level.

Stipend, duration and working hours

Sony lists the pay as 900K INR per year, which is unusually transparent for an internship listing and well above a typical fresher intern stipend. The paid internship runs for six months starting the first week of September 2026, with working hours from 9:00 to 18:00 IST, Monday to Friday. Work is remote within India, so you can take the Sony Data Science Intern 2026 role from anywhere in the country.

Key responsibilities

You will mine, clean, and analyse high-dimensional user interaction data to identify latent behavioural structures, and transform noisy signals into highly optimised feature spaces. Expect to analyse and translate data annotations into actionable insights, design, build, and optimise cutting-edge AI/ML models, and act as the connective tissue between core engineering divisions and strategic business units – translating complex model outputs into transparent operational metrics so technical decisions align with company KPIs. You will also help write production-ready, clean, modular code to scale pipelines and model architectures in modern cloud environments, and build rigorous offline verification frameworks plus online A/B testing to gauge system performance – the working scope of Sony Data Science Intern 2026.

Eligibility and must-have skills for Sony Data Science Intern 2026

You should currently be pursuing an MS, MTech, or an advanced undergraduate degree such as BTech in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a parallel quantitative domain. Sony asks for demonstrable AI/ML skills, specifically in video analysis algorithms and LLMs, a strong grasp of supervised and unsupervised paradigms, loss functions, and bias mitigation, and advanced proficiency in Python with core packages including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jax, and SciKitLearn. Experience handling big data via distributed tools such as SQL, PySpark, Polars, or Arrow is listed as good to have.

Selection process for Sony Data Science Intern 2026

Sony has not published a formal round structure. For research-oriented internships of this kind, expect a resume and profile screen, a technical discussion on machine learning fundamentals, your projects, and Python depth, and a round probing how you reason about experiments, evaluation, and model behaviour. Because the Sony Data Science Intern 2026 listing runs through LinkedIn Easy Apply, a sharp, well-targeted resume carries most of the screening weight.

Documents required

Keep an updated resume ready (build one free with the Resume Builder) plus semester mark sheets, your degree or enrolment certificate, and a government photo ID. Because this is a research role, have links to any GitHub repositories, published papers, Kaggle work, or ML projects ready – they matter more for Sony Data Science Intern 2026 than marksheets do.

Preparation tips

Given the stated must-haves, focus your prep on video analysis algorithms and LLMs rather than generic ML. Revise supervised and unsupervised paradigms, loss functions, and bias mitigation properly, since Sony calls these out by name. Be fluent in Python with PyTorch or TensorFlow, and be able to explain one model you built end to end including how you evaluated it. Run at least two timed mock rounds with the free aptitude practice tests on Freshershunt and prepare a 90-second self-introduction that leads with your strongest ML project before the Sony Data Science Intern 2026 screen.

How to apply for Sony Data Science Intern 2026

Click Apply Now on this page, or open the official Sony Research India listing on LinkedIn and use Easy Apply. The role already has a large applicant pool, so apply the same day you see it. Browse more live openings on the companies hiring freshers hub.

About Sony Research India

Sony Research India is the research arm of Sony Group in India, working on frontline technologies such as AI and data analytics. Its stated values are dreams and curiosity, diversity, integrity and sincerity, and sustainability. Sony Research India is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices and to ensuring no worker or potential worker receives less favourable treatment due to any characteristic protected under applicable local laws.