Microsoft Security Researcher Intern - Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

528042470

Start Date:July 2026

Internship (40hrs/week)
12-weeks

We are hiring for summer internship positions across both AI/ML and security research disciplines. Depending on the discipline you are most aligned to, you will have:

• Demonstrable interest in cyber security and/or relate technical research, as demonstrated by your degree course and other activities such as participation in CTFs, independent learning, etc.
• Fluency in English

• Demonstrable experience applying data-driven inference methods such as statistics, machine learning or AI to a concrete security-oriented project (e.g., in a university project or previous internship)
  • Experience using deep learning libraries such as PyTorch/Tensorflow in an AI/ML project
  • Experience applying LLMs and RAG-based methodologies within projects in the security domain

• Track record of applying your security knowledge to solve novel security problems, e.g., as demonstrated by success in CTFs, previous internship or university projects.
  • Optional: Malware analysis experience using tools such as Ghidra and IDA

In addition to these discipline-specific requirements, all candidates should have an excellent academic record, strong programming skills and an ability to learn new skills quickly to apply them to threat-tracking problems in MSTIC.

• Work with our threat hunters and analysts to develop novel approaches to tracking and monitoring threat actors that target Microsoft customers.
• Deliver end to end solutions for processing large scale data that originates from users, services, or other automated systems.
• Partner across Microsoft Threat Intelligence to deliver end to end solutions to our products and services.