Microsoft Research Intern - Augmented Learning Reasoning 

United States, Washington 

700220956

• Dialogue state tracking

• Metaprompt optimization / compression

• Personalized text generation

• Preference modeling / post training

• Prompt distillation

• Recommendations with LLMs

• Teaching skills to LLM agents

• Universal search and recommendation

• User satisfaction estimation

Required Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an MS or PhD program in CS, EE or a related STEM field.
• Have at least 1 year of experience in conducting research, writing peer-reviewed publications and software development.

Other Requirements

• 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 above, you’ll need to submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position. 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to think unconventionally to derive creative and innovative solutions.
• Actively conducting research in at least one of the following areas: deep learning, large foundation models, dialog systems, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, multi-objective optimization, recommender systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or information retrieval.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with your mentor and others in Microsoft on research projects.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration skills.

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