Microsoft is looking to solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment, by building reliable, safe, and efficient AI agents that perform meaningful tasks for users.
Requirements
- Experience of building scalable and reliable AI systems.
- Demonstrated ability to develop original research agenda.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other researchers and product development teams.
- Proficient interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration.
- Ability to think unconventionally to derive creative and innovative solutions.
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science or a related STEM field.
Responsibilities
- Formal Verification: Modeling and verifying AI agent's behavior to ensure correctness.
- Reliability & Safety: Ensuring agents execute tasks without failure or unintended side effects.
- Intelligent Task Handling: Designing agents that can efficiently manage complex workflows.
- Secure Execution: Guaranteeing agents operate in isolation and only perform authorized tasks.
- Efficiency Optimization: Minimizing the number of steps, step latency, and costly interactions with LLM backends.
- Tooling for Developers: 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.
