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Researcher Intern

CompanyMicrosoft
LocationRedmond
Work ModeOn Site
PostedJune 9, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
Lead groundbreaking research projects to improve AI for developers, focusing on post-training code models and agentic research. Collaborate across Microsoft and GitHub teams to build, train, and evaluate state-of-the-art models on a large scale.
Internship Type
full time
Salary Range
$182 - $196
Company Size
232235
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
Overview
The Code|AI team is the Applied Research and Data for Github Copilot and VS Code, working on the future of AI for Developers! We are a diverse, entrepreneurial, and multi-disciplinary group of scientists, researchers, and engineers with a passion for using AI to improve the productivity of millions of developers around the world. We have released AI for code advancements in Github Copilot, VS Code, Visual Studio and Copilot extensions in other IDEs. Our team focuses on post-training code specific models like code completion, code embedding models and agentic research for Copilot Coding Agent, Copilot CLI and Copilot Code Review. We embrace the open source and continue to share our research and work with the developer and research community to advance AI in Developer tools.
 
We are seeking entrepreneurial and creative Applied Researcher Interns to lead groundbreaking research projects, taking these from research into product. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams, and Github. You will have an opportunity to build and train state-of-the-art models, and opportunities to both apply and advance existing approaches of using LLMs for software engineering, from using RAG to evaluation. Most importantly, you will have an opportunity to work closely with several developer product teams to run experiments, evaluate, iterate, and improve your AI projects on a large scale. 
 
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
  • Contributes projects on the future of AI for developers.
  • Collaborates across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github.
  • Stays up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering.
  • Creates new datasets from both the world's public code and Microsoft's internal data.
  • Builds and manages large-scale ML experiments and models.
  • Embodies our Culture and Values 


Qualifications
Required Qualifications: 
  • Currently pursuing a Bachelors or Masters Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
  • Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship
  • Candidate must be 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.
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Research Sciences INTERN - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $ - $181.73 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $ - $196.15 per hour.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay


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



Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Key Skills
Applied ResearchLarge Language ModelsRetrieval Augmented GenerationMachine LearningModel TrainingEvaluationDataset CreationSoftware EngineeringData AnalysisExperimentation
Categories
Science & ResearchSoftwareTechnologyEngineeringData & Analytics
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