Microsoft Research is seeking research interns passionate about making robots a helpful part of everyday reality, to do ground-breaking research at the junction of sensing, decision-making/learning, and large multimodal model training to enable robots to act and learn robustly in semi- and weakly structured environments.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of research experience on a topic related to robot learning (RL, IL, VLM/VLA training, representation learning, etc, with experiments performed on a physical robot)
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science or a related STEM field
- At least 1 publication on robot learning in a top-tier AI/ML or robotics venue (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, CoRL, etc)
- At least 1 robot learning-focused project open-sourced on GitHub
- Experience with imitation learning, RL, learning from human feedback, planning
- Experience with large multimodal model training
- Experience with tactile, force feedback sensing
Responsibilities
- Do ground-breaking research at the junction of sensing (tactile, force feedback), decision-making/learning (imitation learning, RL, learning from human feedback, planning), and large multimodal model training
- Enable robots to act and learn robustly in semi- and weakly structured environments
- Collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers
- Present findings
- Contribute to the vibrant life of the community
- Perform experiments on a physical robot
- Participate in research and development strides
Other
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program
- Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager’s Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship
- Submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position
- Be available for a 12-week internship
- Be willing to collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers
