Microsoft · 1 day ago
Research Intern - Human Intelligence
Redmond, WA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$5,610/mo - $11,010/moMicrosoft is a leading technology company that offers dynamic research internships in a range of scientific and technical disciplines. The Research Intern in the Human Intelligence team will work on advancing multimodal face normalization and RGB+NIR recognition for secure sign-in experiences, collaborating with top researchers to contribute to innovative solutions.
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Responsibilities
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice
Research & prototype methods in areas such as:
Unified face normalization across modalities (e.g., RGB↔NIR), with joint prototype + feature learning and cross-modal alignment
Multimodal face recognition (fusion across RGB, NIR, depth/IR, audio cues where appropriate), with robustness/fairness under distribution shift
Large Language Models-aided face verification: explore Vision Language Models (VLM)/Large Language Models (LLM) pipelines that (i) use visual context in the photo (attributes, scene cues, spatiotemporal hints) to assist verification; (ii) provide interpretable rationales; and (iii) improve failure detection and human-in-the-loop triage
Efficiency & reliability: distillation/quantization/pruning, lightweight encoders/normalizers, calibration and uncertainty, liveness/antispoof integration
Evaluate thoroughly: define datasets and protocols; run ablations and benchmarks (ROC, EER, TPR@FAR, latency/memory, fairness/robustness)
Production immersion: learn Windows Hello-style pipelines (signals, constraints, on-device considerations) to align research with deployment
Publish: communicate results via talks, internal tech reports, and submissions to top venues
Qualification
Required
Currently enrolled in a Master's or Ph.D. program in CS, EE, Applied Math, or related field with a focus in vision/graphics/ML
Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager's Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship
You'll need to submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position as well as a cover letter and any relevant work or research samples
Preferred
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 FR
Experience with VLMs/LLMs (prompting, fine-tuning, tool-use) for visual reasoning, explainability, or safety
Scalable training (DDP/multi-node), dataset curation, reproducible MLOps; familiarity with liveness/FAS and fairness/robustness evaluation
Proficient PyTorch/JAX background; ability to implement/reproduce SOTA
Company
Microsoft
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