Microsoft is seeking Research Interns to advance core AI research across security, agentic workflows, and next-generation architectures to solve complex challenges in diverse fields.
Requirements
- Develop methods to strengthen the robustness and trustworthiness of AI systems.
- Defenses against data poisoning, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial threats.
- Principled threat evaluation and risk modeling through statistical analysis and the establishment of realistic attack benchmarks.
- Design alignment strategies and fine-tuning harnesses that enable post-training for efficient, coherent multi-turn interactions in agentic systems to ensuring aligned models maintain guardrails under complex tool use and orchestration.
- Investigate architectures beyond transformers to address task-specific needs, such as models for controlled dynamical systems, interpretable designs inspired by neuroscience, and multi-modal integration for richer reasoning.
- Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary environment across research and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop methods to strengthen the robustness and trustworthiness of AI systems.
- Design alignment strategies and fine-tuning harnesses that enable post-training for efficient, coherent multi-turn interactions in agentic systems to ensuring aligned models maintain guardrails under complex tool use and orchestration.
- Investigate architectures beyond transformers to address task-specific needs, such as models for controlled dynamical systems, interpretable designs inspired by neuroscience, and multi-modal integration for richer reasoning.
- Leveraging shared datasets, training and compute resources, and unified evaluation frameworks to enable impactful cross-domain applications.
- Collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers.
- Present findings.
- Contribute to the vibrant life of the community.
Other
- Currently enrolled or accepted in a PhD program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field.
- At least 1 year of experience in conducting research and authoring peer-reviewed publications.
- Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager’s Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship.
- In addition to the qualifications below, you’ll need to submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position as well as a cover letter and any relevant work or research samples.
- During the 12-week internship, Research Interns are paired with mentors and expected to collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers, present findings, and contribute to the vibrant life of the community.
