Microsoft is looking to solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment, by incubating disruptive technologies for next-gen hardware products.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science or a related STEM field
- At least 2 years' experience conducting research as part of a research program in academic or industry setting in the area of Large Language Models (LLMs), multimodal models, agents and/or reinforcement learning
- Experience training and/or finetuning large language models, model compression, distillation to small language models
- Experience with Python and deep learning libraries
- Desire to learn to create reusable software libraries and packages
- Experience using dataset curation, data generation using prompting state of art LLMs and/or model alignment
- Experience with reinforcement learning libraries or formal methods and verification is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design and lead the implementation of state-of-the-art language and multimodal models to transform the Windows experience
- Collaborate with people at the forefront of their field from across the organization
- Turn ideas into reality with real-world impact at Microsoft scale
- Contribute to exciting research and development strides
- Present findings and contribute to the vibrant life of the community
- Collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers
- Work on almost every aspect of a machine learning project - from ideation to shipping
Other
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program
- At least 2 years' experience conducting research
- Submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position as well as a cover letter and any relevant work or research samples
- Be physically located in their manager’s Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship
- Passion for incubating new ideas, solving problems, and building working prototypes
