The candidate must be currently enrolled in a Bachelors or Masters program in AI, ML, CS, Game Development or a related area, with research experience, strong understanding of deep learning, hands-on implementation skills, effective communication, and the ability to work collaboratively. Preferred qualifications include enrollment in a PhD program, top publication experience, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure.

The research intern will collaborate with a team to tackle research challenges in multimodal generative models for video games, conducting experiments, coding, and communicating findings through publications and presentations.

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Cambridge

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<ul><li>For our Microsoft Research&nbsp;Cambridge, UK, location, we are seeking highly motivated researcher intern candidates&nbsp;in the area of&nbsp;Gaming and AI. We encourage applications from all candidates with a background in Deep Learning (DL), Reinforcement Learning (RL), or a related field, who are excited to tackle challenges that arise in applications of modern machine learning approaches to video games. Working closely with researchers from Microsoft for the duration of 12 weeks, you will advance the state of the art in this space by contributing to the development of novel insights related to evaluation, models and/or algorithms with potential applications to video games.&nbsp;</li><li>This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to ambitious research while collaborating with a diverse team and expanding your expertise in this exciting research area within a leading industrial research lab. Key research challenges that we are currently tackling include, but are not limited to, evaluation of multimodal generative AI models, generalization, model architectures, predictive (world) models, imitation and reinforcement learning, and scaling to large-scale data and compute. The focus and scope of each internship considers the team’s direction as well as successful candidates’ experience and research interests.&nbsp;</li></ul>

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Bachelors

Masters

For our Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, location, we are seeking highly motivated researcher intern candidates in the area of Gaming and AI. We encourage applications from all candidates with a background in Deep Learning (DL), Reinforcement Learning (RL), or a related field, who are excited to tackle challenges that arise in applications of modern machine learning approaches to video games. Working closely with researchers from Microsoft for the duration of 12 weeks, you will advance the state of the art in this space by contributing to the development of novel insights related to evaluation, models and/or algorithms with potential applications to video games. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to ambitious research while collaborating with a diverse team and expanding your expertise in this exciting research area within a leading industrial research lab. Key research challenges that we are currently tackling include, but are not limited to, evaluation of multimodal generative AI models, generalization, model architectures, predictive (world) models, imitation and reinforcement learning, and scaling to large-scale data and compute. The focus and scope of each internship considers the team’s direction as well as successful candidates’ experience and research interests. 

Research Intern – Multimodal Generative Models for Video Games

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