Microsoft · 18 hours ago
Research Intern - Foundational Models & Agents
Redmond, WA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$6,710/mo - $13,270/mo
2+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that provides a dynamic environment for research careers. As a Research Intern, you will design and implement state-of-the-art language and multimodal models to enhance the Windows experience, collaborating with top researchers and contributing to impactful projects.
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Responsibilities
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice
Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world’s best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life
Research Interns not only advance their own careers, but they also contribute to exciting research and development strides
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
Qualification
Required
Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science or a related STEM field
At least 2 years' experience conducting research as part of a research program in academic or industry setting in the area of Large Language Models (LLMs), multimodal models, agents and/or reinforcement learning
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
Preferred
Passion for incubating new ideas, solving problems, and building working prototypes
Experience training and/or finetuning large language models, model compression, distillation to small language models
Experience with Python and deep learning libraries
Desire to learn to create reusable software libraries and packages
Experience using dataset curation, data generation using prompting state of art LLMs and/or model alignment
Experience with reinforcement learning libraries or formal methods and verification is a plus
Experience of scientific writing in top-tier conferences or journals (ICLR, ACL, EMLP, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, TPAMI, etc.)
Company
Microsoft
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Funding
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