Microsoft Research Intern - IMAIS Group Situated Intelligence 

United States, Washington 

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• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science or a related STEM field.
• At least 2 years of postgraduate experience, including peer-reviewed publications, researching a topic closely related to the above description, such as AI systems for mixed reality, human-robot interaction, embodied conversational agents, multimodal interaction, etc.
• At least 2 years of programming experience working with multimodal data and/or interactive systems.
• At least 1 year of experience applying multimodal machine learning models in real-time interactive systems, or at least one year of experience designing, conducting, and analyzing controlled experiments with human subjects.

Other Requirements

• 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. After you submit your application, a request for letters may be sent to your list of references on your behalf. Note that reference letters cannot be requested until after you have submitted your application, and furthermore, that they might not be automatically requested for all candidates. You may wish to alert your letter writers in advance, so they will be ready to submit your letter.

• Demonstrated experience in programming multimodal systems that interact with real human users, e.g., robots or virtual agents, particularly by integrating multiple machine-learned components such as computer vision, speech recognition, dialogue handling, natural language generation, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting research outside of a controlled lab environment, e.g., field research, ethnography, in-the-wild studies, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to develop original research agendas.
• Must be able to collaborate effectively with other researchers and product development teams.
• Proficient interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration.

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For this Research Internship (summer 2025), our group in Redmond is seeking a PhD student with a passion for research on multimodal, situated interaction topics. Research Intern responsibilities will include (1) helping to develop and refine multimodal interactive systems involving egocentric sensors and other devices, (2) collecting, analyzing, and building models from multimodal data generated by existing systems, and (3) implementing and testing new techniques for computationally modeling social processes like turn-taking, engagement, attention, F-formations, etc.