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.

We are a systems and networking research group at Microsoft Research. We do research in multiple areas of networking, security, systems, and artificial intelligence (AI). We build working systems, engage with academia, publish scientific papers, publish software for the research community and deploy cutting-edge technologies to Azure and our customers.

Our group has published in top academic conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiSys, USENIX NSDI, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ISCA and SOSP. We have had massive impact on the Azure Network by productizing research technologies including Software Defined Networking, Hardware-accelerated Datapath, and Network Verification, and on Azure for Operators with Network Function Virtualization & Cloudification, Open radio access network (RAN), Network Programmability, and AI Operations. We have also made significant contributions to the design of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) security for datacenter hardware and the broader DRAM industry. Find out more about us here: Intelligent Networked Systems (INS) - Microsoft Research

We strongly believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We practice open communication and respectful dialogue. We support multiple social and career building opportunities in our internship program.

We seek Research & Development Interns with stellar technical skills and backgrounds in AI, wide-area networking, wireless networking, distributed systems, operating systems, mobile systems, network verification and/or security. We are looking for applicants who have experience in large-scale systems and/or networks in addition to being fluent in the relevant state-of-the-art research. Applicants should be a team player in a collaborative and supportive environment with outstanding programming skills. The work will require excelling in fast-paced execution and implementation on Azure platforms. Applicants should demonstrate depth of knowledge in systems and networking and demonstrate experience in experimentation and implementation.