Microsoft · 2 days ago
Research Intern - Post-Training
Redmond, WA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$5,610/mo - $11,010/moMicrosoft is a leading technology company seeking a Research Intern for their Human Superintelligence Post-Training team. The role involves designing datasets, advancing model training, and developing data infrastructure while collaborating with global teams on innovative AI projects.
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Responsibilities
Design & evaluate datasets: build high-quality datasets/benchmarks; run ablations to measure impact and improve data effectiveness
Advance model training: contribute to pre-training, post-training, and RL for language and multimodal models
Develop data infrastructure: extend pipelines for ingest, preprocess, filter, and annotate large, heterogeneous data
Data quality & analysis: assess text, image, video, audio, and code data for quality, diversity, and relevance; propose improvements
Tooling & workflows: create lightweight tools for dataset auditing, visualization, and versioning to speed iteration
Research & collaboration: work with researchers/engineers to push research and product boundaries with measurable impact
Qualification
Required
Currently enrolled in a BS/MS/PhD program in computer science, AI/ML, data science, electrical engineering, or a 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
Effective coding skills in Python and modern data/ML libraries (NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch/JAX/TF)
Familiarity with training/evaluating ML models and with basic data-pipeline concepts
Preferred
First-author publication(s) at top-tier AI venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR) or equivalent journals; or demonstrably comparable research impact (e.g., widely used open-source, SOTA results, benchmark wins)
Experience with distributed data or training frameworks (Spark, Ray, Beam; PyTorch DDP/FSDP) and cloud ecosystems (Azure; data lakes)
Exposure to large-scale, un/semi-structured datasets (images, video, audio, code)
Prior work on LLMs, RL/RLHF, post-training, or multimodal models
Contributions to open-source tooling or reproducible research
Clear communication, self-motivated, curiosity, and a bias for hands-on experimentation
Company
Microsoft
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Founded in 1975
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