Microsoft · 14 hours ago
Data Science: PhD Internship Opportunities - Redmond
Redmond, WA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$6,710/mo - $13,270/moMicrosoft is a leading technology company that empowers individuals and organizations to achieve more. As a Data Scientist PhD Intern, you will utilize machine learning, statistics, and AI to solve problems, collaborate with stakeholders, and improve customer experiences through innovative methods and algorithms.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Formulate approaches to solve problems using well defined algorithms and data sources
Incorporate an understanding of product functionality and customer perspective to provide context for those problems
Use data exploration techniques to discover new questions or opportunities within your problem area and propose applicability and limitations of the data
Interpret the results of their analysis, validate their approach, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve
Engage with peer stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, actionable insights that influence product and service improvements that will impact millions of customers
Participate in the peer review process and act on feedback while learning innovative methods, algorithms, and tools to increase the impact and applicability of your results
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing a Doctorate Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship
Candidate must be enrolled in a full time bachelor's, masters, MBA, or PhD program in area relevant for the role during the academic term immediately before their internship
Ability to submit an official or unofficial academic transcript as part of the evaluation process, if selected for interviews
Preferred
Some Engineering experience and or project course work using large data systems on SQL, Hadoop, etc
Proficiency using one or more programming or scripting language to work with data such as: Python, Perl, or C#
Some experience and or project course work performing data analysis and applying statistics working with tools such as: Excel, R, MATLAB, AMPL, or SAS
Some experience and or project course work with product and service telemetry systems
Some A/B Testing or experimentation (this can be from conducting real life science experiments, hypothesis testing in stats etc.)
Some experience or course work applying basic ML to a type of data and or used algorithms to conduct experiments on data
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Founded in 1975
10001+ employees
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Funding
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