Microsoft Hiring Data Science PhD Intern

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of university interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will let you bring your aspirations, talent, potential, and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Data Scientist PhD Intern at Microsoft, you will use machine learning, statistics, experiments, and/or AI, LLM, SLM, 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 combine your engineering abilities with analytical skills to make customer experiences better.

Our Data Scientists use innovative methods, algorithms, and tools daily to drive results throughout Microsoft devices, operating systems, products, and services, providing novel insights into business and customer scenarios.

As an intern at Microsoft, you are stepping into a world of real impact from day one. You will collaborate with global teams on meaningful projects, explore cutting-edge technologies like AI, and kick-start your career. With a strong focus on learning and development, this is your opportunity to grow your skills, build community, and shape your future, all while being supported every step of the way.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate and empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Please note this application is only for internships based in our Redmond, Washington office. For internships in other offices in the United States, please see our Careers site.

Responsibilities

• Formulate approaches to solve problems using well-defined algorithms and data sources.
• Incorporate an understanding of product functionality and customer perspective to provide context for those problems.
• Use data exploration techniques to discover new questions or opportunities within your problem area and propose applicability and limitations of the data.
• Interpret the results of your analysis, validate your approach, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve.
• Engage with peer stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, actionable insights that influence product and service improvements impacting millions of customers.
• Participate in the peer review process and act on feedback while learning innovative methods, algorithms, and tools to increase the impact and applicability of your results.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Doctorate Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field.
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.
• Must be enrolled in a full-time bachelor's, master's, MBA, or PhD program in a relevant area during the academic term immediately before the internship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Some engineering experience or project coursework using large data systems on SQL, Hadoop, etc.
• Proficiency using one or more programming or scripting languages to work with data, such as Python, Perl, or C#.
• Some experience or project coursework performing data analysis and applying statistics with tools such as Excel, R, MATLAB, AMPL, or SAS.
• Some experience or project coursework with product and service telemetry systems.
• Some A/B testing or experimentation experience (can be from real-life science experiments, hypothesis testing in stats, etc.), not required but ideal.
• Some experience or coursework applying basic ML to a type of data or using algorithms to conduct experiments on data.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $6,810.00 to $13,480.00 per month. A different range applies to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, where the base pay range is USD $8,920.00 to $14,610.00 per month.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-intern-pay.

Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis throughout the academic calendar (September - April).

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.