Microsoft Research Intern - Office Applied 

United States, Washington 

703905788

Required Qualifications

• Accepted or currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Information Science, Statistics, Information Systems, Economics, Operation Research or a related STEM field.
• Have at least 1 year of experience in conducting research and writing peer-reviewed publications.

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 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:
  
  • Personalization or adaptation of Foundation Models (e.g. Personalized text generation)
  • Understanding, verifying, or evaluating LLMs outputs
  • Prompt optimization / compression / distillation
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Agents (e.g. Memory, Goal management, Inter-Agent conversations)
  • Knowledge Management (Information literacy, Disinformation, Production processes)
  • Slow search (Resolving complex information queries)
  • Model finetuning
• Ability to collaborate effectively with your mentor and others in Microsoft on research projects.
• Effective interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration skills.

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