Microsoft Research Intern - AI Reasoning 

United States, Washington 

690369644

This Research Internship position is a unique and rare opportunity to contribute towards hard problems in AI research that spans over multiple areas that may include generating and utilizing synthetic data, CoTs, post-training, reinforcement learning, long-context and techniques for fast inference. You will collaborate with scientists and engineers to advance the art of fast and slow thinking for real-time long-form generation.

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science or a related STEM field.

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.

• Prior research experience in LLM pre-training, post-training, reinforcement learning, CoTs, long context or reasoning.
• Hands-on experience working with large foundation models and state-of-the-art AI/ML frameworks such as Pytorch, JAX or TensorFlow.
• Experience building and deploying prototypes, applications, or open-source code bases (include a link to GitHub profile if available).

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