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Data Scientist Intern (PhD)

Microsoft· Data Science
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Redmond, WA$6.8k - $13.5kinternshipPosted 1mo ago

About the role

PhD internship opportunity at Microsoft in Redmond focused on applying machine learning, statistics, experiments, and AI-related methods to build and improve products, with emphasis on collaboration, data-driven problem solving, and real business impact.

Responsibilities

  • Formulate approaches to solve problems using well defined algorithms and data sources.
  • Incorporate an understanding of product functionality and customer perspective to provide context for those problems.
  • Use data exploration techniques to discover new questions or opportunities within your problem area and propose applicability and limitations of the data.
  • Interpret the results of their analysis, validate their approach, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve.
  • Engage with peer stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, actionable insights that influence product and service improvements that will impact millions of customers.
  • Participate 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 Doctorate Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.
  • Candidate must be enrolled in a full time bachelor's, masters, MBA, or PhD program in area relevant for the role during the academic term immediately before their internship.

Skills

Required:PhD-level data science
Nice to have:Programming (Python, etc.)Data analysis and statistics
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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