Yamaha Global Internship

Yamaha Corporation is recruiting a wide range of competitive R&D engineers for its internship programs. Interns will be working at the Innovation Center, which is Yamaha's dedicated R&D headquarters located in Hamamatsu, Japan. The program will span approximately 12 weeks in 2022 summer season, and also will support your travel and accommodations. Interns will be members of teams which include other Yamaha researchers and engineers.

image Yamaha Innovation Center

About recruitment

Following two Yamaha divisions are looking for interns.
There are two separate application sites for each division. Please refer to their respective sites.

Product Development Division

Product Development Division

Senior or masterʻs students in engineering, computer science, physical sciences, and/or mathematics.


Application is now open for Spring 2023. Click here for program details

Research & Development Division

Research & Development Division

Doctoral or masterʻs students in engineering, computer science, and/or mathematics.

Applications have been closed for the 2022 internship at Research and Development Division.

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Product Development Division

Outline

Term Approx. 10-12 weeks, January - March 2023
Division Product Development Divisions, Musical Instruments and Audio Products Business Unit
Location Hamamatsu, Japan (only 90 minutes from Tokyo/Osaka)
Application Please submit a cover sheet which clearly designates your target project, along with your résumé/CV and additional materials to back-up your skills & experiences required by each project.
Condition Paid internship
Benefits Travel and commutation expense, housing with bed, washer, kitchenet & wifi, stipend for meal, Japanese visa assistance and language lessons available
Process Documentary screening followed by online interview
Due date September 30th, 2022 (first-come first-serve policy)

Fields

  • Acoustic and Vibration Analysis of Classical Musical Instruments (Strings)

    B&O Instruments Development Department

    Occupied
    image acoustics
    Process & Objective
    Continuous measurement and analytic research, simulation and verification to gain insights on instruments behavior
    SKILLS
    • Required: Acoustic engineering and vibration analysis, modeling/analysis software such as Solidworks/ANSYS, Basic knowledge in musical instruments structure
    • Desirable: Ability to play string instruments (violin, cello)
  • Development of FX for Digital Synthesizers using VST 3 Audio Plug-in SDK

    Digital Musical Instruments Development Department

    Occupied
    image digital synth
    Process & Objective
    Investigation and design of DSP algorithm with VST plug-in SDK, to prototype and evaluate new FXs for future products
    SKILLS
    • Required: Digital Audio Signal Processing, C/C++, Basic knowledge in digital synthesizers
    • Desirable: DSP coding in C language (low level programming), Ability to play musical instruments, Knowledge/Experience in music production using DAW
  • Log Data Analysis for Improvement of Cloud Services

    Core Technology Development Department

    image Core Technology Development Department
    Process & Objective
    Extracting valuable information by analyzing cloud service logs, to improve service stability and usability
    SKILLS
    • Required: Scripting language (Python, JavaScript), Cloud Service System (AWS), Linux & MySQL, Analysis tools (Re:dash or Power BI)
    • Desirable: Basic Knowledge in Network Administration and Protocols

These are only few project samples. Please refer to the entire list by following the link below.

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Research & Development Division

Outline (2022 season)

Term Approximately three months, Spring to Autumn 2022
Division Research & Development Division
Location (1)On-site Program: Hamamatsu, Japan (only 90 minutes from Tokyo/Osaka) (2)Online Program: at your place via Internet
Application Send a message via this contact form, with your desired field and a list of your research interests, with the subject “Internship”
Condition Paid internship
Benefits Stipend. For on-site program, we also provide you with:
- Visa application support
- Transportation cost support
- Furnished accommodation
Process Application submission followed by an online interview
Due date 31 March, 2022
Notes *Term and Location are flexible, depending on changing national/international regulations against COVID-19.

Fields

  • Singing synthesizers and/or tone generators
    image Singing synthesizers and/or tone generators
    Location: online / Hamamatsu, Japan
    Research and development of technologies for singing synthesizers and/or tone generators.
    DNN-based technology has a potential to create expressive music by new way that is different from conventional way. You will be charge of research and development for making practical application such as real-time performance or multilingual synthesizer.
    SKILL
    • Required: Expertise in programming (C, C++, Python), machine learning, and signal processing
    • Strongly welcomed: Experiences with music creation, musical instrument performance or singing
  • Adaptive speech enhancement for home audio devices
    image Adaptive speech enhancement for home audio devices
    Location: online / Hamamatsu, Japan
    Making voices easier to hear and understand is one of the most important tasks for consumer audio system/devices. Adaptive filter processing using the harmonic structure of voices has a potential to realize it. You will be a part of a team tasked with developing adaptive signal processing for voices.

    [Researcher]
    Research and development of speech enhancement which processes adaptively to the audio source. Main purpose is to reduce computational complexity of adaptive processing.

    [Research Engineer]
    Implementation of a MATLAB/Simulink model for speech enhancement using adaptive filter. Trials of automatic generation of C/C++ code from MATLAB/Simulink model.
    SKILL
    • Required: Expertise in programming (MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++, Python), audio signal processing
    • Strongly welcomed: Background in speech signal processing (e.g. speech recognition, speech enhancement)
  • Room acoustic optimizer prototyping using smartphone
    image Room acoustic optimizer prototyping using smartphone
    Location: Hamamatsu, Japan
    Smartphone has become very familiar and its performance has improved and powerful these days. Integrating its many sensors (e.g. microphones, cameras) and home audio system has potential to provide more optimal/personal listening experience. You will be a part of a team tasked with developing the room optimizer system with smartphone by statistical signal processing and machine learning.
    SKILL
    • Required: Expertise in programming (MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++, Python), audio signal processing
    • Strongly welcomed: Background in mathematics for machine learning
    • Welcomed: Experience of smartphone application development
  • Scene identification of live music with multichannel audio
    image Scene identification of live music with multichannel audio
    Location: online / Hamamatsu, Japan
    With the recent development of deep learning technology, the accuracy of acoustic scene identification technology has improved dramatically. We are also conducting research on scene identification technology to analyze various sound sources recorded by our company. In this internship, you will be a member of a team tasked with developing an advanced mixing system based on machine learning, and you will conduct research and development of a scene identification system for live music sources.The following two positions are available.

    [Researcher]
    We would like you to clarify the challenges and advantages caused by the conditions of multichannel and live sound sources.

    [Research Engineer]
    Under the direction of employees, develop applications for scene identification. It would be better if you could improve the method theoretically.
    SKILL
    • Required: Expertise in programming (C/C++, Python), signal processing，machine learning
    • Welcomed: Experience in GUI programming
  • Automated music instrument skill assessment
    image Automated music instrument skill assessment
    Online
    In this internship, we will use machine learning and MIR to locate problematic passages in beginner's instrument playing and provide suitable feedback.
    SKILL
    • Required: Python, C++, Machine learning, Music information retrieval
    • Welcomed: Experiences in teaching novices, experiences in music instrument performance.
  • Design of interactive systems for music education
    image Automated music instrument skill assessment
    Location: online / Hamamatsu, Japan
    In this internship, we will iterate and implement an interactive system for providing suitable feedback and lesson strategies to beginning keyboard players. The intern will be expected to prototype various interaction mechanisms for helping beginning pianists play better, using some of the technologies developed at Yamaha.
    SKILL
    • Required: Programming skills, esp. in UI/UX implementation (MaxMSP, TouchDesigner, Unity, iOS, Flutter, etc.), and programming experience in music (audio and MIDI), machine learning and music information retrieval.
    • Welcomed: Experiences in teaching novices, experiences in music instrument performance

Send a message via this contact form, with your desired field and a list of your research interests, with the subject “Internship”.

Applications have been closed for the 2022 internship at Research and Development Division.

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