Applied Scientist Intern: Multimodal Conversational AI

Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. It is core to Microsoft’s modern work, modern life & modern education value prop. We are reinventing the way people communicate and work together across the globe. We are looking to hire a PhD (or published MSc) candidate for a 12-week internship (ideally from February 2026) to join CMD Labs – an applied science team within Microsoft Teams – to work on the next generation of live conversational voice agents. Specifically, we are interested in making live conversations with AI – especially in multi-party scenarios - more natural and human like by leveraging real time multi-modal signals e.g. from transcript, voice and video. The intern will be fully onboarded onto our current science and production code base and be expected to investigate, propose, implement and test new algorithms and approaches in this area – solving problems of direct relevance to product. The intern will also be expected to present results internally at the end of the position and write up the work for publication in a leading academic AI conference (e.g. ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, CVPR, ICCV). You will partner with research, product and engineering teams to invent and deliver the future for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot and other AI products. This role is based in Cambridge (United Kingdom). Our culture is inclusive and collaborative; our team members come from diverse backgrounds, are respectful to one another and achieve impact by building on each other’s strengths and skills. We focus our energy on AI projects that are likely to have high impact on our products and bring high value to our customers. Our team has a strong sense of bias for action and accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth.