Location: Germany, Munich

Start Date: Summer 2022

Duration: 3 months 

Every year, we welcome thousands of university students from every corner of the world to join Microsoft. You bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.    

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connection, executive engagement, and memorable events.   

We’re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Does this sound like you? Learn more about our cultural attributes.   

Join the dynamic and exciting Microsoft Search Relevance team to deliver innovative, next-generation search and knowledge mining capabilities to a variety of applications & scenarios globally. Our expert group of Software Engineers and Data & Applied Scientists leverage machine learning, artificial intelligence, and state-of-the-art technology to advance the relevance & applicability of search solutions over a variety of knowledge & information sources. We are looking at a plethora of canvases to deliver intelligent, assistive search solutions in Office applications, or embedded in other Microsoft or 3rd party offerings. Here you will have the opportunity to closely work and collaborate with world-class developers and top-notch researchers from around the globe on exciting, challenging search-related problems. We are seeking the best and brightest engineering talent to join our relevance team where your creativity, passion, and expertise will have a huge impact in taking our products to the next level. We believe that many search innovations are within reach and that there are ample opportunities to win users world-wide.

Are you ready to join us and create the future? Come as you are, do what you love—start your journey with us today!   

Responsibilities

Data Scientists at Microsoft help to improve the quality of experiences on our devices and services. We are looking for highly motivated and passionate Data Scientists to apply rigorous scientific methodology and algorithms to data in order to improve Microsoft’s devices, operating systems, and services. As a Data Scientist, you will provide unique insight into business and customer scenarios that cut across organizational boundaries and lead the growth of a data-driven culture within Microsoft. 

As a Data Scientist intern, you will formulate approaches to solve problems using well-defined algorithms and data sources. You will incorporate an understanding of product functionality and customer perspective to provide context for those problems. You will use data exploration techniques to discover new questions or opportunities within your problem area and propose applicability and limitations of the data. Successful Data Scientists will interpret the results of their analysis, validate their approach, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve.   

You will engage with peer stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, actionable insights that influence product and service improvements that will impact millions of customers. As a Data Scientist, you will also engage 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

Currently pursuing a bachelor's, master's or PHD in Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Sciences like Physics or other quant-focused field.

Some research & development experience in at least one of the following areas is required: information retrieval, dialog systems, natural language processing or speech recognition systems, with a strong emphasis on machine learning.

Software design and development experience with C++/C#/Java/Python.

Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. 

Experience with deep learning methods

Experienced in writing scalable, distributed and highly efficient components

The ideal candidate will have solid academic and/or corporate research background.

Ability to independently conduct research and address issues ranging from fundamental algorithm development/implementation/optimization to driving eventual product outcomes.

Experience with distributed processing techniques such as Hadoop or Map/Reduce preferred.

Due to nature of the Intern Program we are currently prioritizing applications from students with final graduation date of summer 2023 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

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