Research Intern - Artificial Intelligence

Summary: Microsoft is a leading technology company that provides a dynamic environment for research careers through its Microsoft Research labs. They are seeking multiple Research Interns to work on artificial intelligence projects, collaborating with researchers to advance methodologies and contribute to significant research developments. Responsibilities: - Conduct research on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence methodologies and identify new opportunities to advance artificial intelligence from various aspects - Leverage interdisciplinary expertise and knowledge across NLP, LLM, computer vision, and other related domains to accelerate innovation in artificial intelligence - Develop, prototype, and optimize novel methodologies to tackle the core challenges of artificial intelligence - Disseminate research findings through publications in peer-reviewed journals, top-tier conferences, and other relevant venues, and present results both internally and externally - Collaborate with researchers at MSR or Microsoft and beyond to advance and propel the research process Required Qualifications: - Currently enrolled in a Master or Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related field - Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager's Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship - Submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position as well as a cover letter and any relevant work or research samples Preferred Qualifications: - Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and vibrant research environment - Willingness to embrace knowledge/technique outside your field of research - Solid programming skill, including prototyping, implementation and optimization - Experience in LLM pre-training, post-training and inference (like Megatron framework) - Experience in world model, multimodality and AI4Code - Reinforcement Learning experiences and frameworks (like VeRL, rLLM) - Proven publication track such as CVPR, ACL, ICML, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, RSS etc Required Skills: Artificial Intelligence, Multimodality, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Programming, Research Publication, Independent Work Benefits: Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.