Human Intelligence Research Intern (Jun 2026)

Advance multimodal face normalization and RGB+NIR recognition research for secure sign-in technology as a Research Intern at Microsoft!

Your Role

Here’s what you will be doing:

• Join the Human Intelligence team in the Windows Applied Sciences Group to develop multimodal face normalization and RGB+NIR recognition technologies.
• Explore techniques to transform diverse, cross-modal inputs into robust identity representations.
• Improve invariance to pose, illumination, and occlusion for secure sign-in experiences such as Windows Hello.
• Pursue compute-efficient perception methods for real-world deployment.
• Emphasize scientific rigor, reproducibility, and user-centric evaluation at production scale.

About You

The company is looking for candidates who meet the following qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a Master’s or Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field with a focus on vision, graphics, or machine learning.
• Physically located at their Microsoft manager’s worksite location for the duration of the internship.
• Submission of a minimum of two reference letters, a cover letter, and relevant work or research samples is required.
• Preferred qualifications include publications in CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, SIGGRAPH, or related journals.
• Experience in face recognition/verification, multimodal learning/fusion, metric learning, representation, or generative modeling.
• Depth in multimodal normalization (pre-FR normalizers, prototype learning) and RGB↔NIR face recognition.
• Experience with vision and language models (VLMs/LLMs) for visual reasoning, explainability, or safety.
• Familiarity with scalable training (DDP/multi-node), dataset curation, reproducible MLOps, liveness/fake attack detection (FAS), and fairness/robustness evaluation.
• Proficiency in PyTorch or JAX with the ability to implement or reproduce state-of-the-art methods.

Compensation & Benefits

• Applied Sciences IC2 internship base pay range: USD $5,610 - $11,010 per month.
• For San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area locations, Applied Sciences IC2 base pay range: USD $7,270 - $12,030 per month.
• Applied Sciences IC3 internship base pay range: USD $6,710 - $13,270 per month.
• Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:
  • Industry-leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

How to Apply

• Submit an application including a cover letter and relevant work or research samples.
• After application submission, a request for at least two reference letters may be sent to your listed references.
• Reference letters cannot be requested until after application submission; candidates are advised to notify letter writers in advance.

This job may close before the stated closing date, you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible

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