Research Intern - Office AI

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.

This position is for a Research Internship with the Experiences + Devices (E+D) group in Microsoft.

You will be working on a team of AI Engineers, Applied Scientists, and Software Engineers working on cutting-edge problems in the field of applied AI for Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Your project will focus on researching, designing, building, and evaluating a solution for intelligent model routing. This project aims to create an intelligent model router to evaluate incoming API requests and determine the most suitable model (LLM or SLM) for Office tasks like summarization, compose, and data analysis. The project involves designing the routing algorithm, integrating it with existing APIs, and testing performance to balance cost and quality effectively.

You will be working closely with other researchers, applied scientists, engineers, and product teams on this project.

We value your ideas and unique viewpoints on these topics, as well, and hope that our partnership and collaboration will shape initial directions into exciting, ambitious, and impactful research contributions that only you could have crafted.