Microsoft Cambridge Internship Opportunities – Generative 

United Kingdom, England, Cambridge 

433251603

The Microsoft Research Cambridge UK Intentional Meetings workstream is excited to welcome an HCI intern with an interest in Behavioral Science to join our team to explore opportunities around Generative AI and meeting goals, with the aim of improving the intentionality of workplace meetings.

goals, anddesigning systems that can adapt to the diverse goal needs of global organizations.Topics of interest for this internship include the role of Generative AI systems in eliciting and clarifying meeting goals, cultural differences in perceptions of meeting goals and effectiveness, and HCI/design considerations for Generative AI systems that support meeting intentionality.

This is a Joint. This will allow the intern to develop experience in the reality of fitting research to product needs.

The intern must begin the internship beforeJuly 2025, andideally will start duringMay 2025.

We encourage applications from individuals of all genders and nationalities who are excited about this opportunity. We believe in the power of diverse perspectives and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Sand Experience

• Experience should be demonstrated throughat least onepublication(oracceptedpre-print) in a major journal or conference.

• There is a preference for applied researchwork drawing on the fields of human-computer interaction, behavioral science,organizational psychology,cognitivescience, and/or communication.

• There is a preference forworkon remote or hybrid collaborationin videoconferencing.

• Synthesisingresearch literature.

• Writing academic publications (use of Overleaf and Zotero a plus).

• Technology experience

• Experience with Generative AI systems.

• Methodological skills(qualitativeand/orquantitative

• Researchthrough design, interactionanalysis,ethnographic observation or interviews,cognitive walkthroughs etc.

• Surveyandbehaviouralexperimentdesign and analysis(experience in R a plus).

• Work skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Comfort reporting on work progress.

• Project and personal time management.

Sand Experience

• Experience with prompt engineering of large language models.

• Experience creating prototypes, technology probes, or other functional designed artefacts and interactive prototypes.

• Writing and implementing RESTful web APIs, including tools or user experiences mediated by Generative AI accessed by API.

The actual project to be carried out will be determined in conversation with MSR, the product team, and the intern. The expected output of this internship includes:

1. A formative survey or experiment exploring key research questions relevant for product teams

1. Depending on project scope, timing, and intern skillset: lightweight prompt engineering and/or design mock-ups to support meeting goal planning or similar

1. publication inproceedings forrelevant academicvenues (e.g. CHI, CSCW, DIS, IUI, etc.), and,

1. An internal presentation on relevant findings, design guidelines, and best practices.