Applications are invited for the Research Fellowship Opportunity at Microsoft, Bangalore. Check the eligibility and other details below!

About Microsoft

Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited, a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, set up the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) in Hyderabad in 1998. Over the past years, they have expanded to become one of Microsoft Corporation’s largest R&D centres outside its headquarters in Redmond.

Job Overview

99% of people who own computers do not know how to program, and even experts often struggle to code accurately. Through a new frontier in AI, program synthesis, we can help everyone generate programs that accomplish their tasks faster and more accurately, from users who have never written a line of code to professional developers. In program synthesis, the computer programs itself. The user needs to tell the synthesizer what they want—via examples or just in natural language—and the synthesizer generates the desired program. This boosts huge productivity in varied domains, from data preparation to code editing.

Research Fellowship Opportunity at Microsoft, Bangalore

The PROSE team is advancing the state of the art in program synthesis and shipping these innovations through flagship Microsoft products like Excel, Visual Studio, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Studio. PROSE has developed a powerful and flexible framework for program synthesis that leverages logical reasoning and machine learning techniques and combines them in unique ways to synthesize programs automatically. This approach has been recognized with regular papers at top-tier conferences; a few of them won best paper and test-of-time awards.

Responsibilities

  • Microsoft is hiring Research Fellows for one-year appointments, which are extensible for another year and have the potential to develop into full-time research track appointments.
  • Their team provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, solving customer problems on a global scale.
  • Fellows will actively contribute to state-of-the-art systems and research, collaborate with, and be mentored by expert engineers and researchers from various backgrounds.
  • They will write code that ships in production to millions of users and write research papers that advance the field of program synthesis.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

  • Either a current student finishing up an undergraduate or master’s degree in the next month or a recent graduate in 2022.
  • Strong programming skills

Preferred qualifications:

  • Excellent communication skills
  • A keen interest in both research and engineering    
  • Background in programming languages/compilers or machine learning/AI

How to Apply?

Interested candidates can directly apply through this link.

Location

Bangalore, Karnataka