Research Science: Internship opportunities

Overview

Join Microsoft to build community, explore your passions, and do your best work with thousands of university interns from around the world. This opportunity invites you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential, and excitement for the journey ahead.

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) is expanding roles into Singapore and seeking research interns in Foundation Model innovations (LLMs, vision, multi-modality, etc.), deep learning and reinforcement learning foundations, and industrial AI applications (e.g., AI for Healthcare, Embodied AI and Robotics, etc.).

As a Research Science Intern, you will conduct research and lead research collaborations that yield new insights, theories, analyses, data, algorithms, and/or prototypes that advance the state-of-the-art of computer science and engineering, as well as general scientific knowledge. You will formulate research problems, design, develop, execute, and implement a research agenda to advance academic knowledge and close identified gaps, and provide expertise to product or business groups. You may create long-term business opportunities through research outcomes, but you will not be responsible for addressing immediate product needs or demonstrating a clear path to product.

We seek candidates with strong deep thinking research abilities and fast-paced entrepreneurial execution. Ideal candidates should be able to collaborate with researchers and product team colleagues at Microsoft to push forward research agendas, contribute as team players in a collaborative environment, and demonstrate outstanding programming skills. Applicants should show depth in Natural Language Understanding, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Algorithmic Foundations of Optimization, Data Mining, or Machine Intelligence, as well as robust academic experience in data processing, experimentation, and modeling.

Microsoft works with world-class researchers to advance technology as it evolves. We share a motivation to seek innovative solutions to global challenges and improve lives. Microsoft provides a nurturing environment to support passionate researchers and engineers in AI technology innovation. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We foster a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals, upholding values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and improve the performance of advanced algorithms on large-scale datasets and cutting-edge research in machine intelligence and machine learning applications.
• Implement prototypes of scalable systems in AI applications.
• Collaborate closely with team members to develop systems from prototyping to production level.
• Develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems.
• Under guidance, research new tools, technologies, and methods used in the research community and contribute knowledge about a specialized tool or method to support planning for research projects.
• Understand their research as it relates to Microsoft products or business groups and assist in technology transfer efforts, participating in standards organizations, filing patents, authoring white papers, developing or maintaining tools/services for internal Microsoft use, or consulting for product or business groups.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related disciplines).
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining after the internship.
• Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages, particularly Python.
• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar toolkits.
• Hands-on experience with training and/or inference of large-scale models, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and/or Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and/or diffusion models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in a relevant field.
• Demonstrated academic experience, including publications in top-tier conferences or journals, in one or more of the following areas:
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Large Language Models or Generative AI

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.