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Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment. The Microsoft Copilot Tuning Research team is seeking applications for the position of Research Intern to join their team in Redmond, WA; San Francisco Bay Area; New York City, NY; or Baltimore. The mission of the Copilot Tuning Research team is to ensure that AI can be easily adapted and tuned to enable critical, high-value applications, including entirely new productivity tools. Our research leverages novel training and post-training algorithms, AI architecture, and agentic innovations to adapt M365 Copilot using customer-specific data and domain expert feedback to enable end-to-end fine-tuning and adaptation within the platform. We are seeking Research Interns to join our team and contribute to advancing generative AI models, reinforcement learning methods, agentic systems and tool use, computer-use agents, evaluations, automated data curation, multimodal, embeddings, and related technologies. As a Research Intern, you will be at the forefront of developing and implementing cutting-edge technology in artificial intelligence. This role is ideal for candidates who are passionate about improving AI capabilities to handle increasingly complex tasks inspired by real customer needs. You will collaborate with a team of world-class researchers, applied scientists, engineers, and product managers.
Job Responsibility:
Perform cutting-edge and thorough research in collaboration with other researchers, applied scientists, and engineers
Prepare detailed report of methodologies and findings, present results and insights, and demonstrate working prototypes
Apply your in-depth knowledge, problem-solving skills, and drive to innovate to solve new challenges in the field and be given an opportunity to realize your ideas in products and services used worldwide
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Accepted or currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science or related STEM field
Ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment, through effective communication, with a multi-disciplinary team
Track record of publications in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and/or scientific journals
Interest in real-world applications and impact
Demonstrable ability to define an ambitious, original research agenda
Experience in Python software development, ideally demonstrated by published software projects (e.g., Github)
Experience implementing new AI systems or algorithms and running experiments and analyses to study and evaluate their performance
Experience with training or post-training of LLMs, multimodal models, diffusion models, reasoning models, computer use agents, or building other related architectures or AI systems
Willingness to embrace knowledge outside your field of research interest
Nice to have:
Ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment, through effective communication, with a multi-disciplinary team
Track record of publications in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and/or scientific journals
Interest in real-world applications and impact
Demonstrable ability to define an ambitious, original research agenda
Experience in Python software development, ideally demonstrated by published software projects (e.g., Github)
Experience implementing new AI systems or algorithms and running experiments and analyses to study and evaluate their performance
Experience with training or post-training of LLMs, multimodal models, diffusion models, reasoning models, computer use agents, or building other related architectures or AI systems
Willingness to embrace knowledge outside your field of research interest