Microsoft Applied Science PhD Internship Opportunities 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

847708950

Contract Type:Internship

12-weeks (40hrs/week)

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD program in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, AI, or a related field.
• Fluency in English

Preferred Qualifications

Ideal candidates would have one or more of the following qualifications:

• Research experience in one of the following areas:
  • Image and video understanding, Large Language Models (LLM), Vision-Language Models (VLM)
  • Mobile manipulation, robot-environment interaction, human-robot interaction, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model
  • Deep generative modelling, and deep learning architectures
  • Model quantization, Post-Training Quantization (PTQ), Quantization-Aware Training (QAT)
• Skills in algorithmic problem-solving and software development (C++, Python, C#, etc.).
• Experience with open-source tools such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, ROS, OpenCV, Unity, etc.
• Publication(s) in top-tier conferences or journals in related fields (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, IJCV, PAMI, ICRA, IROS, RSS, IJRR, TRO, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.).
• Excellent communication and writing skills.

Interns apply their research skills and knowledge to practice. You will work on a stimulating and open-ended project that seeks to advance the cutting-edge during the 12-week internship. You will be required to work with other interns and researchers by frequently exchanging ideas and results with the group, proactively seeking feedback from others, working in a common codebase, and giving a final talk. Research internships are available in all areas, and run throughout the year.