Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment.

The Special Projects team at Microsoft Research Redmond, along with applied science partners in Microsoft’s Experiences & Devices organization, is looking for PhD-level Research Interns to work at the intersection of AI and productivity.

Artificial Intelligence is changing the nature of knowledge work, providing new capabilities that augment how we produce digital goods and services. Research at the intersection of AI and productivity seeks to understand and improve the impact of AI on knowledge work: what is being impacted, in what ways, over what time span, and ultimately how can AI help people generate the most value.

Building this “productivity flywheel” for human-AI collaboration requires methodological innovation to learn from data and translate that learning into advances at all levels of the AI stack, from the model and system level to the application and user interaction. In this quantitative role, the Research Intern will draw on cutting-edge methods from one or more of computer science, computational social science, economics, and data science to help build the next generation of human-AI productivity systems.