Researcher Intern

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Redmond, WA +2 · Research Sciences

Applied Researcher Intern role focusing on AI for developers, specifically post-training code-specific models and agentic research for tools like Github Copilot. The role involves building and training state-of-the-art models, applying LLMs to software engineering tasks, and running large-scale experiments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contributes projects on the future of AI for developers.
  2. Collaborates across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github.
  3. Stays up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering.
  4. Creates new datasets from both the world's public code and Microsoft's internal data.
  5. Builds and manages large-scale ML experiments and models.

Skills

Required

  • Pursuing a Bachelors or Masters Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
  • At least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship
  • Enrolled in a full time bachelor's, masters, MBA, or PhD program in area relevant for the role during the academic term immediately before their internship

Nice to have

  • post-training code specific models
  • code completion
  • code embedding models
  • agentic research
  • RAG
  • evaluation

What the JD emphasized

  • groundbreaking research projects
  • build and train state-of-the-art models
  • large-scale ML experiments and models
  • run experiments, evaluate, iterate, and improve your AI projects on a large scale

Other signals

  • Applied Research
  • AI for Developers
  • LLMs for Software Engineering
  • Large-scale ML experiments