Research Intern - Sustainability in Total Cost of Ownership

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.

Microsoft's first-party Compute Server product line is seeking a passionate and innovative Research Intern to join our team. This role focuses on integrating sustainability into our Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and tradeoff analyses for future data center products. Our group conducts architectural analysis with tradeoffs in performance, power, TCO, sustainability, and reliability to choose the right architecture features for future data center products.

The Research Intern will be responsible for researching the sustainability impacts of various components in the data center, developing new models or refining existing sustainability models, and generating ideas to improve the carbon emissions of future data centers.