Research Intern - Document Intelligence and Content Understanding

What you'll do

• Investigate models and learning techniques for document understanding, from foundational research to real-world scenarios.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to evaluate ideas at scale and translate advances into practical AI capabilities.
• Present findings and contribute to research and development during the 12-week internship.

What they ask for

• Currently enrolled in a Doctorate Degree program in Computer Science, STEM, or a relevant field.
• Physically located at the manager’s Microsoft worksite for the internship duration.
• Submit at least two reference letters, a cover letter, and relevant work or research samples.

Nice to have

• Research experience in document intelligence, multimodal AI, computer vision, natural language processing, or related areas; experience with large language models, vision-language models, or other multimodal foundation models.
• Experience developing machine learning systems using Python and modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.

Pay

USD $6,810 - $13,480 per month (base salary); USD $8,920 - $14,610 per month (base salary)

Tools

Python, PyTorch

AI focus

Research multimodal document intelligence and understanding, including models that perceive, understand, and reason over documents’ language, visual structure, tables, images, and domain-specific conventions.