Applied Scientist Intern: Multimodal Conversational AI

**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 conversational voice agents. Specifically, we are interested in making live conversations with AI – especially in multi-party scenarios - more natural and human like by leveraging real time multi-modal signals e.g. from transcript, voice and video.

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 t...