**Overview**

Bring your passion for innovation and research to a team at the forefront of artificial intelligence and machine learning. If you’re eager to make significant contributions across user engagement, intelligent experiences, and real product scenarios, this opportunity within Microsoft AI Content and Commerce, Search Fundamentals, and Search Place will excite you.

As an Applied Scientist PhD Intern, you will apply your expertise in areas such as supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning (especially transformers and sequence modeling), reinforcement learning for optimizing user outcomes, and advanced data science techniques. You’ll translate complex business challenges—spanning search, personalization, natural language processing, computer vision, and recommendation systems—into practical, impactful solutions using Azure and other cloud-based technologies. Your experience with statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, large datasets, and deploying r...