Applied Sciences PhD Intern

Overview

Start Date: June - July 2026

Contract Type: Internship (40hrs/week)

Duration: 12-weeks

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

As an Applied Science PhD Intern at Microsoft, you will be at the forefront of technological innovation, working collaboratively to bring research to life in our products and services. You'll gain expertise in cutting-edge research areas, apply advanced concepts to real-world needs, and use state-of-the-art tools to make a tangible impact on product quality and business outcomes. You'll contribute to the creation of intelligent solutions through data analysis, modeling, and machine learning, ensuring our products remain at the leading edge of innovation.

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and improve performance of advanced algorithms on large-scale datasets and cutting-edge research in machine intelligence and machine learning applications.
• Think through the product scenarios and goals, identify key challenges, then fit the scenario asks into Machine Learning (ML) tasks, design experimental process for iteration and optimization.
• Implement prototypes of scalable systems in AI applications.
• Gain an understanding of a broad area of research and applicable research techniques, as well as a basic knowledge of industry trends and share your knowledge with immediate team members.
• Prepare data to be used for analysis by reviewing criteria that reflect quality and technical constraints. Reviews data and suggests data to be included and excluded and be able to describe actions taken to address data quality problems.
• Assist with the development of usable datasets for modeling purposes and support the scaling of feature ideation and data preparation.
• Help take cleaned data and adapt for machine learning purposes, under the direction of a senior team member

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science in the field of speech processing
  • Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship
• Strong foundation in machine learning, ideally with a focus on speech recognition
• Foundation in sequence modelling techniques (Transformers, RNNs, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Python
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch 

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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