Research Intern - AI Systems & Architecture

**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.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly depend on breakthroughs in systems and architecture, where hardware, models, and software must be co-designed to scale efficiently. This Research Internship offers the opportunity to explore next-generation AI systems through performance modeling, architectural analysis, and emerging inference mechanisms. Research Interns will investigate topics such as disaggregated inference, sparse/expert model scaling, and new accelerator, memory-architecture, and interconnect technologies. This role is ideal for students passionate about understandi...