Data Science: AI Experiences PhD Internship Opportunities - Redmond

Overview

Come apply your academic skills to solve real world industry problems at scale and do your best work at Microsoft! The complexity of the space and technical challenges of this opportunity will help you grow your skillset by collaborating with tenured PhDs across multiple disciplines (Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, etc.). Commerce, Content, and Monetization (CCM) is a 3,000+ person product, engineering, and data science organization where AI, content, commerce, and advertising converge. We build the technologies that power content and product discovery for billions of user interactions, helping people find what matters while driving a $10B+ business. From large-scale recommendation systems and AI-powered experiences to high-performance serving platforms, our teams tackle complex engineering challenges at extraordinary scale, processing millions of requests per second across billions of content and commerce signals. The solutions we build directly influence user experiences, advertiser success, and business growth. As a Data Scientist PhD Intern in CCM, you'll work alongside exceptional data scientists in diverse fields to solve meaningful problems with global reach and measurable impact. Some example problem areas may include personalized content and product discovery, recommendation, ranking, and search, and advertising and commerce measurement. You will use machine learning, statistics, controlled experiments, and/or AI-powered experiences, including LLMs, SLMs and agents to build and improve great products while making business impact. You will collaborate with stakeholders, formulate approaches to solve problems, and use algorithms and data sources in the context of business and engineering needs. You will also be able to combine your engineering abilities with analytical skills to make customer experiences better. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come toge