Microsoft Data Science PhD Internship Opportunities - Redmond 

United States, Washington 

967925761

Please note this application is only for internships based in our Redmond, Washington office. For internships in other offices in the United States, please see our .

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Doctorate Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field.
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Some Engineering experience and or project course work using large data systems on SQL, Hadoop, etc.
• Proficiency using one or more programming or scripting language to work with data such as: Python, Perl, or C#.
• Some experience and or project course work performing data analysis and applying statistics working with tools such as: Excel, R, MATLAB, AMPL, or SAS.
• Some experience and or project course work with product and service telemetry systems.
• Some A/B Testing or experimentation (this can be from conducting real life science experiments, hypothesis testing in stats etc.) Not required but ideal.
• Some experience or course work applying basic ML to a type of data and or used algorithms to conduct experiments on data.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Formulate approaches to solve problems using well defined algorithms and data sources.
• Incorporate an understanding of product functionality and customer perspective to provide context for those problems.
• Use data exploration techniques to discover new questions or opportunities within your problem area and propose applicability and limitations of the data.
• Interpret the results of their analysis, validate their approach, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve.
• Engage with peer stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, actionable insights that influence product and service improvements that will impact millions of customers.
• Participate in the peer review process and act on feedback while learning innovative methods, algorithms, and tools to increase the impact and applicability of your results.