Research Intern - Microsoft Teams CMD Labs

1 Month ago • Upto 1 Years • Research & Development • $65,520 PA - $128,880 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft Teams CMD Labs seeks a Research Intern (PhD or published MSc candidate) for a 12-week internship focused on improving the accuracy of Japanese transcriptions, particularly named entities. The intern will work with real meeting data, iterating on existing algorithms and proposing novel solutions using speech transformer models, LLMs, and audio-enabled foundation models. This involves training, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering. The intern will collaborate with researchers and engineers, contributing to production algorithms, and potentially a publication. Responsibilities include conducting experiments, developing metrics, and closely collaborating with the team to leverage existing assets and ensure results are applicable to the product. Strong Python coding experience and familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow are required.
Must have:
  • PhD or published MSc in relevant field
  • Experience with transformer models/LLMs
  • Practical Python coding (PyTorch/TensorFlow)
  • Japanese language skills (preferred)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • Research in transcription or Audio LLMs
  • Japanese fluency
  • Publication record

Job Details

Overview

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 Teams is the hub for teamwork that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. It is core to Microsoft’s modern work, modern life & modern education value prop. We are reinventing the way people communicate and work together across the globe.  

 

We are looking to hire a PhD (or published MSc) candidate for a 12-week Research Internship to join CMD Labs – an applied science team within Microsoft Teams – to work on improving transcription accuracy specifically for Japanese, with emphasis on named entities (e.g., names of people/products/teams etc.) by applying existing or novel research and leveraging training, fine tuning, and prompt engineering of speech transformer models, as well as LLMs and audio-enabled foundations models as post-processing and re-scoring modules.

 

Our flagship AI applications for Teams Meetings such Team Copilot, Personal Meeting Copilot and Intelligent Recap are all fully dependent on an accurate meeting transcription as the primary grounding data. Within transcription, the importance of named entities - names of people, projects, products, companies and places - is often the most important, and yet the most challenging for the transcription engine since the names might not be a part of the model's training data.

 

The Research Intern will be onboarded to our evaluation pipeline code which takes as input real meetings that were donated internally, and work to iterate on existing algorithms as well as propose novel solutions to the problem based on recent academic literature. The work done in the Research Internship will contribute towards the algorithm that the engineering team will implement in production.

 

As a secondary priority, given substantial scientific novelty of the approach and results, collaboration on a mutual publication is also possible.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a PhD program (or published candidate in MSc program) in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.

Other Requirements

  • Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager’s Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship.
  • In addition to the qualifications below, you’ll need to submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position as well as a cover letter and any relevant work or research samples. After you submit your application, a request for letters may be sent to your list of references on your behalf. Note that reference letters cannot be requested until after you have submitted your application, and furthermore, that they might not be automatically requested for all candidates. You may wish to alert your letter writers in advance, so they will be ready to submit your letter. 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Field of research and experience with Japanese.
  • Field of research and publications directly related to transcription or the Audio LLMs.
  • Japanese fluency.
  • Practical experience in training, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering of transformer models or LLMs.
  • Practical Python coding experience leveraging PyTorch or TensorFlow or similar framework.

Applied Sciences IC2 : The base pay range for this internship is USD $5,460 -$10,680 per month.

 

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, with the San Francisco Bay area and New York City Metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $7,040 -$11,640 per month.

 

Applied Sciences IC3 : The base pay range for this internship is USD $6,550 -$12,880 per month.

 

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $8,480 - $13, 920 per month.

 

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: 

 

Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

 

Responsibilities

Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world’s best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Research Interns not only advance their own careers, but they also contribute to exciting research and development strides. During the 12-week internship, Research Interns are paired with mentors and expected to collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers, present findings, and contribute to the vibrant life of the community. Research internships are available in all areas of research, and are offered year-round, though they typically begin in the summer.

Additional Responsibilities

  • Conduct experiments, create and validate metrics, and develop candidate algorithms to improve the accuracy of transcription of named entities in Japanese and reduce chances of error in downstream LLM-based applications.
  • Collaborate closely with CMD Labs researchers and engineers to leverage existing assets, datasets, and ensure results can be leveraged back into the product.
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