Applied Scientist Intern: Live Proactive Meeting Agents

Job description

Overview Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. It is core to Microsoft’s modern work, modern life & modern education value prop. We are reinventing the way people communicate and work together across the globe. We are looking to hire a PhD (or published MSc) candidate for a 12-week internship (ideally from February 2026) to join CMD Labs – an applied science team within Microsoft Teams – to work on the next generation of live proactive agents for meetings. Specifically, we are interested in researching and developing agents that can proactively take part in meetings and provide help and guidance in a range of live scenarios. We are expecting the candidate to explore techniques including Reinforcement Learning in simulated environments to train models, and will be deploying and testing these in live Teams scenarios. The intern will be fully onboarded onto our current science and production code base and be expected to investigate, propose, implement and test new algorithms and approaches in this area – solving problems of direct relevance to product. The intern will also be expecte...