PhD Research Scientist Intern - Edge AI

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Servus, hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. Where and how you can work Our flagship campus is in Sydney, Australia but Austria is home to part of our European operations. And you have choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals. Fun fact, a big part of our Austrian operations is developing the AI product within Canva to help reimagine how artificial intelligence can be used in design. Pretty cool ha! At Canva, our mission is to empower the world to design. We're building AI that feels magical and lands real impact for millions of people, helping anyone create with confidence. We're looking for a research intern who is excited by efficient ML and edge deployment to help us bring video-capable vision-language models onto the devices in people's pockets. About the team We're the Video Storytelling team, working on the models and systems behind Canva's video AI experiences. We partner closely with our Edge AI group, who are building Canva's on-device inference capability, to explore what's possible when AI runs directly on users' own hardware. We already own several of the server-side capabilities this work builds on, so you'll be joining a team with a strong command of the data, models, and pipelines behind the problem. About the role This is a 14-week research internship focuses on one clear question: can a video-capable vision-language model be optimised to run efficiently on high-traffic consumer phones, while retaining enough capability to serve a real product use case? The use case is intelligent captioning, where the model's visual understanding of a video drives context-aware, intelligently placed captions. You'll own the complete arc, f