Microsoft is looking to solve complex challenges in building reliable, safe, and efficient AI agents that perform meaningful tasks for users, leveraging recent breakthroughs in generative AI.
Requirements
- Experience of building scalable and reliable AI systems.
- Demonstrated ability to develop original research agenda.
- Ability to think unconventionally to derive creative and innovative solutions.
Responsibilities
- Modeling and verifying AI agent's behavior to ensure correctness.
- Ensuring agents execute tasks without failure or unintended side effects.
- Designing agents that can efficiently manage complex workflows.
- Guaranteeing agents operate in isolation and only perform authorized tasks.
- Minimizing the number of steps, step latency, and costly interactions with LLM backends.
- Building frameworks that accelerate agent development.
Other
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science or a related STEM field.
- 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.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other researchers and product development teams.
- Proficient interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration.
