Researcher Intern, CoreAI
About The Position
The Code|AI team leads applied research and data science for GitHub Copilot and VS Code, focusing on the future of AI for developers. The team includes scientists, researchers, and engineers working on AI advances for developer tools, including code-specific model post-training, code completion, code embeddings, and agentic research for Copilot products. It embraces open source and shares its work with developer and research communities. The Applied Researcher Intern will lead creative research projects and help bring them from research into products. The intern will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams, and GitHub; build and train advanced models; and apply or advance approaches for using large language models in software engineering, including retrieval-augmented generation and evaluation. The role includes running experiments with developer product teams, evaluating results, iterating, and improving AI projects at scale. This is a Summer 2027 internship.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a doctorate degree program in a relevant field.
- Be enrolled in a relevant doctorate degree program during the academic term immediately before the internship.
- Have at least one additional quarter or semester remaining in a relevant doctorate degree program after completing the internship.
- At least 1 year of experience in calculus, probability and statistics, and/or machine learning.
- At least 1 year of experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages, including C/C++, Java, R, or Python, and relevant libraries or frameworks such as PyTorch.
- At least 1 year of classroom or work-related experience in one or more areas of computer science, such as natural language understanding, neural networks, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, algorithmic foundations of optimization, data science, or privacy.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to projects focused on the future of AI for developers.
- Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and GitHub.
- Stay up to date with research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering.
- Create datasets from public code and Microsoft's internal data.
- Build and manage large-scale machine learning experiments and models.
- Embody Microsoft's Culture and Values.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; further information is available at the Microsoft intern pay and benefits page.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
