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Internship - Compression and Optimization of Face Recognition Models

Internship - Compression and Optimization of Face Recognition Models

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Courbevoie, France

Internship

10-02-2026

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Skills

Communication Python Data Analysis Research PyTorch Deep Learning Computer Vision Mathematics

Job Specifications

Job description:

IDEMIA develops high-performance face recognition models used worldwide in applications such as law enforcement, border control, and access control. Our technologies range from large, NIST-evaluated architectures to compact architectures embedded in sensors and constrained devices.

As model sizes and accuracy requirements increase, improving deployment efficiency has become a key challenge. This internship focuses on exploring modern model compression techniques to make our largest models lighter, faster, and easier to deploy on resource-limited platforms.

The objective is to design, implement, and evaluate these methods in order to produce highly efficient face recognition models that maintain strong accuracy while significantly reducing size, latency, and memory footprint.

Key Missions

The intern will work on compressing large face recognition models using approaches such as:

Pruning to reduce computation and parameter count

Quantization (INT8/INT4) to optimize memory and inference speed

Knowledge Distillation to transfer performance from high-accuracy models to smaller ones.

Low-Rank Adaptation as a lightweight mechanism to adapt existing models

Profile description:

Education: Engineering student from a prestigious school in the final year of the engineering cycle, or a Master's student (M2) specializing in computer vision, image processing, or Deep Learning.

Required Technical Skills:

Strong background in mathematics, data analysis, C, Python, and PyTorch
Ability to handle large-scale data and work in a research environment (exploring unfamiliar domains)
Knowledge in biometrics is a plus

Soft Skills & Languages:

Curious
Proactive and autonomous
Results- and solutions-oriented
Clear and convincing communication
Fluent spoken and written English

We offer:

What We Offer

High-impact projects in digital identity and public safety.
Continuous learning in a collaborative, innovative environment.

About the Company

As our world becomes increasingly digitally connected, personal identity and security only become more important. That's why protecting the identity of citizens is a top priority of private and public organizations worldwide. As a trusted partner to companies and government agencies for more than 60 years, our deep domain expertise in civil identity, public security, secure credentials, and commercial markets for biometric identification and document authentication is second to none. Our biometrics-based identity platform of... Know more