**Overview**

Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment.

As part of the Systems Planning and Architecture (SPARC) group, you will contribute to research and exploration in advanced machine learning (ML) systems, focusing on the numeric, data types, and compute technologies that drive the next generation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads at Azure scale. You will collaborate across Azure teams to investigate cutting-edge approaches in model efficiency ranging from low-precision formats, quantization strategies, and ML kernel development, to benchmarking and analyzing emerging model architecture and hardware capabilities.

As a Resea...