Data Science and Research: MSc & PhD Internship Opportunities

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, SQL, Perl Programming, Deep Learning, MATLAB Programming, Natural Language Processing (NLP), PyTorch, TensorFlow, SAS, C# Programming, NeurIPS

Job Description

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. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connection, executive engagement, and memorable events.??

Data Scientists?and AI researchers?at Microsoft help to improve the quality and experiences of our devices and services. We are looking for highly motivated and passionate Data Scientists to design and?apply rigorous scientific methodology and algorithms to improve Microsoft’s devices, operating systems, and services. As a Data Scientist, you will provide unique insight into business and customer scenarios that cut across organizational boundaries and lead the growth of a data-driven culture within Microsoft.

As an AI expert, you will help push the state-of-the-art in computer vision, Natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition and speech enhancement, using Microsoft's extensive domain- specific knowledge, data, and compute resources.?

Are you ready to join us and create the future??Come as you are, do what you love—start your journey with us today!??

Responsibilities

• Data Scientists?and AI researchers?at Microsoft help to improve the quality and experiences of our devices and services. We are looking for highly motivated and passionate Data Scientists to design and?apply rigorous scientific methodology and algorithms to improve Microsoft’s devices, operating systems, and services. As a Data Scientist, you will provide unique insight into business and customer scenarios that cut across organizational boundaries and lead the growth of a data-driven culture within Microsoft.
• As an AI expert, you will help push the state-of-the-art in computer vision, Natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition and speech enhancement, using Microsoft's extensive domain- specific knowledge, data, and compute resources.?
• As a Data Scientist or an AI researcher?intern, you will help formulate approaches to solve problems using various algorithms and data sources. You will incorporate an understanding of product functionality and customer perspective to provide context for those problems. You will use data exploration techniques to discover new questions or opportunities within your problem area and propose applicability and limitations of the data. Successful Data Scientists will interpret the results of their analysis, validate their approach, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve.?
• You will develop?real-world machine learning and deep learning algorithms in the domains of computer vision, natural language processing, recommender systems, and more.?
• You will increase productivity of ongoing research projects and help to productize them, publish research papers in top-tier machine learning venues and issue patents.
• You will engage with peer stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, actionable insights that influence product and service improvements that will impact millions of customers.
• As a Data Scientist, you will also engage in the peer review process and act on feedback while learning innovative methods, algorithms, and tools to increase the impact and applicability of your results.?

Qualifications

• Due to nature of the Intern Program, we are currently prioritizing applications from students with final graduation date of winter 2023 and beyond.
• Relevant candidates will have at least 3 of the qualifications listed below:
• Currently pursuing MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Sciences like Physics or other quant-focused fields.
• Proficiency using one or more programming or scripting language to work with data such as: Python, C++, Perl, or C#.?
• Relevant publications in machine learning / vision / NLP / speech / data mining conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICAAPS, AAAI, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL RecSys, KDD, WSDM, ICDM)
• Experience and or project course work performing data analysis and applying statistics working with tools such as: R, MATLAB, AMPL, or SAS.?
• Experience or course work applying ML to a type of data, including the?application of ML algorithms on large scale data sets, and understanding of various ML algorithms and evaluations techniques.
• Hands on experience in development of deep / machine learning algorithms in PyTorch/ TensorFlow for computer vision / speech / natural language processing applications.
• Hands on experience with big data processing.
• Experience in building industrial machine / deep learning systems.
• Passion to learn from your peers, manager, and other stakeholders in the Data Science and AI domain.??
• Ability to interact with peers and stakeholders to drive product and business impact.?
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills.